pycnon

See pyknon. pyrrhic (pir'-ik) foot Eng.consisting n. from Grk. pykna (pik'-na) Grk. to1.C". A metrical of two The half tone and the quarter tone short syllables or notes, thus: ^ ^,. steps in the enharmonic and chromatic It is also called dibrach, par iambus, modes of the Greeks. and single or disemic proceleusmatic. pyknon 2. An ancient Greek military dance From the Greek word meaning in which the dancers were armed. The close, compact. movements represented attempts to 1. Name given to the intervals in the parry strokes of an enemy, or to Greek chromatic scale. These inter inflict injury upon him, and the dance vals measured about a quarter step. was regarded as a part of military 2. In medieval music, a semitone. training. 3. Also used to mean close notes. pyladeios (pi-lad'-e-yos) pyrrhic hi us (pl-rik'-i-us) Eng. n. from Grk. n. Grk. A dance that was most skilfully Pyrrhic. See also pyrrhic. performed by Pylades, a celebrated ^reek dancer of the time of Cicero, Pythagorean Applied to a method of measuring in a good natured contest with the intervals of music, as set forth by latter, Pylades, with two or three Pythagoras, who judged the intervals others of the same profe ion, is said by the mathematical relations of the to have expre ed more by dancing vibrations which produced the notes. postures quence. than Cicero did by his elo- His opponents judged the intervals by the ear alone. Q