trihemitonen.
/trʌɪˈhɛmɪtəʊn/ Music. ?Obsolete.
An interval of three semitones, or a tone and a semitone; a minor third; esp. that used in the ancient Greek (Pythagorean) scale.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > third > minor
sesquitone1694
trihemitone1694
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 80 I would..call the greater Third (as the Greeks do) Ditone,..and the Third Minor, Trihemitone.., as consisting of three half Tones, (or rather of a Tone and half a Tone).
1747 Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 268 The Trihemitone of the Ancients falls short of the third Minor by a Comma.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Interval Trihemitone of the Greek Scale, or deficient third Minor, 32/27,..Third Minor, 6/5,..Trihemitone Major, 4096/3375.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.1694