"hexachord" on which the present scale was perfected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference

Running longitudinally, there are four channels in it if it is a tetrachord; six, if it is a hexachord; eight, if it is an octachord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Of a similar nature is Ut queant laxis, for five voices, in which the tenor sings the isolated notes of the hexachord between snatches of four-voice polyphony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

These notes begin the 'hard' (durum) hexachord on G.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

For the fourth hexachord, which was called hard, this B was again raised a semitone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

The e '' la at the top of the second-to-last column where the hexachord syllables are found is not part of this hexachord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

The next three hexachords were treated in the same manner; the last or seventh hexachord was merely a repetition of the first and the fourth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

This is a "natural" hexachord, and proper naming of the notes require naming the note letter, and each syllable from each hexachord of which it is a member.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

Observing the third hexachord on our list we see that in order to make it identical in structure with the first and second, the B had to be lowered a semitone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

Note that only six notes are considered part of the hexachord, which bear the names, in order, ut, re, mi, fa, sol., la, and stand in one column of the table above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

There are many representations of the Hand in music tretises, beginning in the 13th century and carrying on for as long as the hexachord system was used, deep into the 16th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

Commencing with G, which was the lowest note of the system in Hucbald's time, the first hexachord was formed of G A B C D E; the second, following the example of the Greeks, he made to overlap the first, namely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

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Ratisbon, 1725); "De musica tractatus", a very interesting treatise on music, illustrating the great difficulties with which teachers of music were beset in consequence of the complicated system of the hexachord with its solmization and mutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Now the third hexachord was called soft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference