mene

plural menes

1. The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.

   The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.

   1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25

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   He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.

   1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi

   The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.

   2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780

1. Greekhuman sciencesA goddess of the Moon, specifically presiding over the months, sometimes regarded as an epithet of Selene.

1. A surname