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Hapax Legomenon

July 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment

I am intrigued by the hapax legomenon, a word that appears only once in a given work, author, or language. For a musical equivalent, I placed one F♯ against randomized 4-pitch diatonic arpeggios in C.

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  • 1 name The Unknown Adjective // Jun 26, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    […] long been intrigued by the hapax legomenon, the word that appears only once.  (See here for a musical version of the idea.)  There is, as it happens, a hapax in the Pater Noster; I […]