Literary notes about Disjunct (AI summary)
The term "disjunct" is used to convey a sense of separation or discontinuity across different fields of discussion. In musical contexts, it describes tetrachords that are set apart by distinct intervals, emphasizing their noncontiguous structure [1][2][3][4]. In grammatical studies, the word refers to elements that function independently within sentence constructions, such as antecedents or nominatives that stand apart from their expected partners [5][6][7]. Additionally, in biogeographical and ecological writings, "disjunct" characterizes populations or land areas that are isolated from one another [8][9][10][11][12]. Even in anatomical descriptions, the term is applied to denote parts that are distinctly separated by constrictions [13], underlining a broader thematic use of separation or divergence throughout literature.
- The primary rule in the disjunct system was that the separation between the two tetrachords should consist of a whole major tone.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith - Olympus was the first to introduce the disjunct form, and from b to e he compasses a tetrachord.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith - In later times the disjunct tetrachord, B—C—D—E , was added at the top.
— from A Complete History of Music for Schools, Clubs, and Private Reading by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell - Thus the complete scale may have consisted of the disjunct tetrachords a-d and e-a , with the tone g-a .
— from The Modes of Ancient Greek Music by D. B. (David Binning) Monro - How does a pronoun agree with disjunct antecedents?
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown - Of a Verb with disjunct nominatives, by Rule 17th.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown - Does our rule for the verb and disjunct nominatives derive confirmation from the Latin and Greek syntax? 55.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown - In four instances the area encompassed was broken by woodland, indicating that the home range comprised two or three disjunct segments.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch - The geographic ranges, as now known, are disjunct.
— from A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William Edward Duellman - The specimens of the disjunct population of pallidus on the Tres Marias do not differ from the mainland population in Nayarit.
— from A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by John D. Lynch - C. c. paludicola is localized with two disjunct populations—in the Everglades and on Cape Canaveral, Florida.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch - Recently, emphasis on control of numbers of prairie dogs in the area has reduced many formerly extensive colonies to small, disjunct units.
— from Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota by J. Knox Jones - Disjunct : with head, thorax and abdomen separated by constrictions.
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith
