Meanings
- entertainmentThe highest tetrachord.
Trite, the third; as, Trite Hyperbolaeon, the third string, reckoning from the top of the hyperbolaeon or highest tetrachord; […]
1835, W. Wilson, A new Dictionary of Music, page 2781 more example
1914, Vitruvius (translated by Morris Hicky Morgan), Ten Books on Architecture In the middle range, place first at the extreme ends the vessels which give the note of the chromatic hyperbolaeon; next to them, those which give the chromatic diezeugmenon, a fourth below; third, the chromatic synhemmenon; fourth, the chromatic meson, a fourth below; fifth, the chromatic hypaton, a fourth below; sixth, the paramese, for this is both the concord of the fifth to the chromatic hyperbolaeon, and the concord of the chromatic synhemmenon.
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hyperbolaeon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperbolaeon
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