Text: 1) the name of the note above Proslambanos, in the greater perfect system of the Greeks. The first note of the lowest Tetrachord (Hypaton). 2) The third note of the grave hexachord of the Guidonian system, in which it is B mi. 3) The seventh note of the normal scale C, the note Si, in Tonic Sol-fa system Te. 4) The major scale having five sharps in its signature. 5) The note B flat in Germany, where B natural is known as H, whence the possibility of making the letters B, A, C, H, into a fugue subject, as has been done by Bach, Schumann, Liszt, and others. 6) In old solmizations this note was called a Mi. There is no authentic church-mode commencing on this note, owing to the imperfection of its fifth when unraised by the signature.

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