Mus. Obs. Also 6 ellamy. The note E, sung to the syllable la or mi according as it occurred in one or the other of the Hexachords to which it belonged.
c. 1550. Armonye of Byrdes, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 187. Then sang the … mavys The trebble in ellamy.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., III. i. 78. E la mi.
1721. Cibber, Double Gall., I. One laughs in Gamut, another sneeres in Elami Alt.
