Pyknon (from Greek: πυκνόν), sometimes also transliterated as pycnon (from Greek: πυκνός close, close-packed, crowded, condensed; Latin: spissus) in the...
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than the remaining (incomposite) interval, the three-note group is called pyknon (meaning "compressed"). The positioning of these two notes defined three...
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as the hemiolic chromatic pyknon, which is one-and-a-half times the size of the semitone comprising the enharmonic pyknon. Syncopation Henry George Liddell...
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the following context: Let us assume that given a systēma, whether pyknon or non-pyknon, no interval less than the remainder of the first concord can be...
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The technical term for a group of closely spaced notes like this is a pyknon. The photograph below shows part of verse 2 and the beginning of verse 3...
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from which one can place a pyknon on the lower side, the oxypyknos, conversely, is that from which one can place a pyknon on the upper side, and the amphipyknos...
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the remaining (incomposite) interval, the three-note group is called the pyknón (from pyknós, meaning "compressed"). This is the case for the chromatic...
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both cases has the pyknon or, in the diatonic genus, the semitone, at the bottom and, similarly, the lower interval of the pyknon must be smaller or equal...
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other two tunings, whose lower two intervals were referred to as πυκνόν (pyknón), from πυκνός (pyknós, "dense, compressed"). For more information, especially...
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contrast to his predecessors, Ptolemy's scales employed a division of the pyknon in the ratio of 1:2, melodic, in place of equal divisions. Ptolemy, in his...
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intense diatonic scale Public domain music Pulse Punctualism Pygmy music Pyknon Pythagorean comma Pythagorean hammers Pythagorean interval Pythagorean tuning...
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Philodemus In Barker 2009, pp. 394–395, 410–411 Tetrachord theory concerning the pyknon Ptolemais of Cyrene Perhaps fl. 250 BCE Greek Πυθαγορικὴ τῆς μουσικῆς στοιχείωσις...
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of Epirus Ptolemy of Thebes Ptolichus Ptoon Painter Pyanopsia Pygmalion Pyknon Pylades Pylaemenes Pylaeus Pylaon Pylene Pylos Combat Agate Pylus Pyracmus...
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