Vitruvius
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De architectura libri decem
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1567
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ratum, & </
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inde ſeſquioctauam colorando, in ſeſquinonã terminatur. </
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duobus tonis, & </
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cuiusq́; </
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teſſaron concentum amplectitur, id est quartam duobus tonis, & </
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ipſa cum ſeparatim uniuſcuiuſque generis ſinibus conſiderantur, diſsimilem habent interual-
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teſſaron concludunt, ſed ſeorſum conſiderata, id eſt ſecundum cuiuſque generis proprios colores, & </
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teruallornm diſſimilem habent deſignationem, alijs enim interuallis chromaticum, alijs diatonicum, alijs har-
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monia ad diateſſaron ſcandit, & </
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interualla tonorum, & </
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litates; </
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centus conuenientes eorum perfectiones.</
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chordorum diuiſit, finiuitq́; </
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quia natura comparatum eſt, ut non prius tonus, aut hemitonium, aut aliud interuallum reſpondeat, quàm ad
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certum gradum peruenerit uox humana, a qua artifices accepere organorum
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ſuorum temperamenta, dedit
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igitur natura uim toni, & </
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quantitatem, & </
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rum inuentionem, formarum applicationem, ac primum de ſonituum numero muſici diſſeruere. </
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, qui Græce phtongi dicuntur, in unoquoque genere ſunt decem, & </
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uidu a uocis, cuius quantitas, aut magnitudo certa est, & </
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bus, & </
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terra, leuiſſimus ignis, aqua & </
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quatuor inuenti ſunt. </
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motionibus fiunt, ut experientibus eſt manifestum. </
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remißior eſt, tardius. </
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detur orbis, quando magna celeritate uirga a capite accenſa circumuoluitur. </
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tactione dicitur id, quod celeriter agit, unde gladius acutus, quod cito pungit, & </
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cimus, qui celeriter ad ſenſum pertinent, nec cito deſinunt, ut fides magis intentæ, quales ſunt netarum fides,
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quæ ijs, quæ minus intentæ ſunt, cuiuſmodi ſunt hypatæ, acutiores ſonitus edunt. </
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pulſu, celeriter feriens aerem propter intentionem, acutißimum edit ſonum. </
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ſonitus, hos uoces noſtri appellant, Græcipthongos: </
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aut ſex ſæpius capiendas, accipere, & </
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manu dignoſcimus, in qua uiginti, & </
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ſed qua ratione id ſiat, postea dicam. </
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nere, inde addendo, & </
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">primum ergo tetrachordum fecere, id eſt or-
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ganum quatuor chordis constans; </
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ra bypaten, idest primam uocauere; </
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stremam neten, ideſt ultimam, & </
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