diezeugmenon

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διεζευγμένων (diezeugménōn, of the transposed (notes)), aorist passive participle of διαζεύγνυμι (diazeúgnumi), from ζεύγνυμι (zeúgnumi).

Noun

diezeugmenon (plural diezeugmena)

  1. (music) The last tetrachord, in the case where two tetrachords were placed separately from each other, but with only the interval of a tone between them.
    • 1914, Vitruvius (translated by Morris Hicky Morgan), Ten Books on Architecture
      In the middle range, place first at the extreme ends the vessels which give the note of the chromatic hyperbolaeon; next to them, those which give the chromatic diezeugmenon, a fourth below; third, the chromatic synhemmenon; fourth, the chromatic meson, a fourth below; fifth, the chromatic hypaton, a fourth below; sixth, the paramese, for this is both the concord of the fifth to the chromatic hyperbolaeon, and the concord of the chro­matic synhemmenon.