Obs. Also 6 alamyre. [f. a, la, mi, re, names of musical notes.] ‘The lowest tone but one in Guido Aretine’s scale of music.’ J.
a. 1528. Skelton, Col. Clout, 107. And solfa so alamyre.
1654. Gayton, Festiv. Notes, 83 (T.). She ran through all the keys from a-la-mi-re to double gammut.
1760. Stiles, in Phil. Trans., LI. 699. Our natural scale, beginning with Are, and ending with Alamire.
