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Bodin (p. 455), “which chaunceth when ... you depart farthest from those concords which the Musitions call diatesseron and diapente.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968
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An octave or diapason was represented by the numerical ratio 1: 2, the fifth (diapente) by 2: 3, the fourth (diatesseron) by
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968
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Of these numerical relationships the easiest for the layman to grasp were the Pythagorean intervals of diatesseron (fourth), diapente (fifth), and diapason
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968
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