The Ten Books on Architecture, 5.4.8

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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8Their names are therefore due to numerical value; for when the voice becomes stationary on some one note, and then, shifting its pitch, changes its position and passes to the limit of the fourth note from that one, we use the term “fourth”; when it passes to the fifth, the term is “fifth.”

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