Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of three semeia; trisemic.
- noun A trisemic time or syllable.
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Examples
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Most obviously, the four lines of poetry are set to four distinct musical phrases, each the same length twelve units of time and each closing with a "triseme" preceded by another long duration.
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Note that the duration indicated is that of the syllable, not of the pitch, so that a "diseme" may include two pitches (as in the second line) and the "triseme" one, two, or three (as at the end of each line).
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The horizontal dash - indicates a "dissme", worth two units, and the horizontal dash with an upward stroke to the right is a "triseme", worth three.
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