enneachord

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1. 1

   An ancient Greek nine-stringed musical instrument.

   • But Aristoxenus calls the following foreign instruments — phœnices, and pectides, and magadides, and sambucæ, and triangles, and clepsiambi, and scindapsi, and the instrument called the enneachord or nine-stringed instrument.
   • So Apollo's instrument, a sixteenth-century lira da braccio with nine strings like the Greek enneachord given over to the nine muses, serves as the culmination of the lyre's development, as pictured in the Parnassus by Raphael.
2. 2

   A musical interval of nine notes.

   • These dynamical systems "pluck" the seventh chords out of the all-combinatorial enneachord in sc 9-12 (9 through 12).
3. 3

   A chord played with nine notes.

   • He thinks of the creation as a grand symphony (see also figure 13), a notion we shall find diagrammed in figures 79-83; and here he explicates the universal harmony as ten "enneachords" — that is, a chord of nine notes.
   • If we agree that the system consisted of 2 consecutive descending heptachords, or two conjunct enneachords, then we have theory applied to a specific instrument rather than pure theory.
   • It should be noted that R. Dumbrill believes that, in view of the fact that there are nine strings, we should refer to this set of nine strings/notes as an “enneachord” (or as an “enneatonic” system, like “pentatonic” or “heptatonic”).
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      A mystical chord or combination of nine entities that characterizes the music of the…

      A mystical chord or combination of nine entities that characterizes the music of the spheres.

      • Nature thus arranges the various enneachords in the world so that all are in tune with the celestial enneachord; and when one is set going, all the rest will resonate.

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