Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Barypicni

by John Weeks Moore

Barypicni. (Gr.) The ancients gave this name to five of the eight sounds, or principal chords, of their system, viz., the Hypate-Hypatou, the Hypate-Meson, the Mese, the Paramese, and the Nete-Diazeugmenon.