Definition of "diezeugmenon" in английский

noun

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.