Tetrachord

Japanese: tetrachord
Tetrachord

...The Pythagorean theory was later inherited by Euclid (4th-3rd century BC) and Nikomachos (2nd century), and Aristoxenus' theory was inherited by Kleoneidēs (2nd century), but in the 2nd century, Ptolemy put forward his own theory in the form of a compromise between the two schools in his De Harmonia, which was passed on to Boethius. The Greek scale was based on a series of notes called a tetrachord. A tetrachord has a perfect fourth frame and consists of four notes with fixed ends and variable middle notes. Depending on the position of the middle note, it can be divided into three types: diatonic, chromatic, and microtonic (Figure 1).

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Japanese:

…その後ピタゴラス派の理論はユークリッド(エウクレイデス,前4~前3世紀)やニコマコスNikomachos(2世紀)に,アリストクセノスの理論はクレオネイデスKleoneidēs(2世紀)などに継承されていくが,2世紀のプトレマイオスは《ハルモニア論》において両派を折衷する形で独自の理論を打ち出し,それがボエティウスに伝わった。 ギリシアの音階は,テトラコルドtetrachordとよぶ音列が基礎であった。テトラコルドは完全4度の枠をもち,両端が固定し中間音が変化する四つの音から成っているが,中間音の位置によって全音階的,半音階的,微分音的の三つの種類に分けられる(図1)。…

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