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From this we see that the scale in present use is composed of octaves, just as the older scales were composed of hexachords, and before that tetrachords.

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)

Furthermore, as there were six of these syllables, he arranged the musical scale in groups of six notes instead of four, hexachords instead of tetrachords.

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)

This change, however, was made after the scale was divided into a system of octaves instead of hexachords.

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)

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 Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)