Lexicographical Neighbors of Paramese
Literary usage of Paramese
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1874)
"But the distances of nete from mese and of paramese from ... in the same
proportion (12 : 8 = 9:6); for paramese exceeds mese by one-eighth of the latter. ..."
2. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"An eighth string was then added by separating paramese and Trite, ... lo Mese
and paramese to Nete. being separated by a tone. ..."
3. A Complete Dictionary of Music: To which is Prefixed a Familiar Introduction ...by Thomas Busby by Thomas Busby (1811)
"... will know how to appreciate good Pantomimic Music. PARA. (Greek.) A conjunctive
word signify-" mg near: as paramese, near the middle chord, or string. ..."
4. The Evolution of the Beautiful in Sound: A Treatise, in Two Sections by Henry Wylde (1888)
"In the division of the canon the title is paramese. e equivalent for titles as
stated in text. In the division of the canon the title is Trite ..."
5. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"... a fourth below; sixth, the paramese, for this is both the concord of the fifth to
... paramese being the concord of the fourth to the chromatic meson, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"Gregorian music keeps within these limits, and the notation in Latin letters
retains this same diatonic scale even to the chromatic alteration of paramese ..."
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