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. 188. Then sang the … mavys The trebble in ellamy.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., III. i. 78. E la mi, show pitty or I die.
1707. Cibber, Double Gallant, I. 9. One laughs in Gamut, another sneezes in Elami Alt.
