diesis

However, it has been used to mean other small intervals: see diesis for details.

This interval of size 12ε is known as a diesis, or diminished second.

This makes the diesis a semitone, about three times its "correct" size.

Adding a diesis to this makes up an octave.

As a juvenile, Diesis was unbeaten in three races.

Diesis is a small modification of music pitch.

Diesis was also rated the best two-year-old of the season by the independent Timeform organisation.

Hence, this interval's complement, the diminished second, is often referred to as a diesis.

This implies that ε can be also defined as one twelfth of a diesis.

The enharmonic genus consists of a major third and two quarter-tones or diesis.

The difference is the interval called the enharmonic diesis, or a frequency ratio of .

A diesis is generally used to mean the difference between three justly tuned major thirds and one octave.

In third-comma meantone, the diminished second is typically denoted as a greater diesis (see below).

The word diesis has also been used to describe a large number of intervals, of varying sizes, but typically around 50 cents.

The widely used 12-tone equal temperament tempers out the diesis, and thus does not distinguish between the two different types of semitones.

Diesis also may refer to :

The diesis is a comma.

He was sired by Diesis out of the mare, Highland Ceilidh.

The interval between those notes, the diesis, is an easily audible comma (its size is more than 40% of a semitone).

For example, the difference between the diatonic semitone and chromatic semitone is called the diesis.

It shows a similar size in third-comma meantone, where it coincides with the greater diesis (62.57 cents).

In typography the double cross is called double dagger, double obelisk and diesis.

This is Chrysanthos' systematic lists of modifications (the bold syllable had been modified by a phthora-hyphesis or diesis).

He was sired by Danehill out of Lagrion, a daughter of Diesis.

His other progeny included Pebbles, Kris and Diesis.