heptameredeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the French heptaméride, eptaméride.

発音

• (RP) enPR: hĕptăʹmərēd, IPA: /hɛpˈtæməɹiːd/, X-SAMPA: /hEp"t{m@r\i:d/

名詞

heptamerede (複数形 not attested)

1. (acoustics, obsolete, まれに) An interval of pitch 1/301 that of an octave; a savart.
   • ante 1790 (pub. 1795), Adam Smith, Eſſays on Philoſophical Subjects, “Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called the Imitative Arts”, editorially annexed essay: “Of the Affinity between Muſic, Dancing, and Poetry”, page 184

     The heptamerede of Mr. Sauveur could expreſs an interval ſo ſmall as the ſeventh part of what is called a comma, the ſmallest interval that is admitted in modern Muſic. Yet even this inſtrument, we are informed by Mr. Duclos, could not expreſs the minuteneſs of the intervals in the pronunciation of the Chineſe language; of all the languages in the world, that of which the pronunciation is ſaid to approach the neareſt to ſinging, or in which the intervals are ſaid to be the greateſt.

参照

外部リンク

• Savart on Wikipedia.
• Joseph Sauveur on Wikipedia.