Sound and Music: a Non-mathematical Treatise on the Physical Constitution of Musical Sounds and Harmony: Including the Chief Acoustical Discoveries of Professor Helmholtz |
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... ΤΟ SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT ( PRINCIPAL ) , AND TO THE PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS , OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC , THIS VOLUME IS , WITH SINCERE RESPECT , DEDICATED . PREFACE . THE following treatise , portions of which have.
... ΤΟ SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT ( PRINCIPAL ) , AND TO THE PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS , OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC , THIS VOLUME IS , WITH SINCERE RESPECT , DEDICATED . PREFACE . THE following treatise , portions of which have.
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... student . 9. What has just been proved for a particular drop is , of course , equally true for any assigned drop in the surface passed over by a wave . All the drops , therefore , go through exactly the same vi- brations in exactly ...
... student . 9. What has just been proved for a particular drop is , of course , equally true for any assigned drop in the surface passed over by a wave . All the drops , therefore , go through exactly the same vi- brations in exactly ...
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... student should work out the remaining cases for himself . The complete results for the major scale are as follow : - 297 830 352 896 440 495 528 In order to extend the scale another octave up- wards , we have only to multiply each ...
... student should work out the remaining cases for himself . The complete results for the major scale are as follow : - 297 830 352 896 440 495 528 In order to extend the scale another octave up- wards , we have only to multiply each ...
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... student should carefully compare with that of [ § 21 ] , it is clear that reflection takes place at an open , as well as at a closed end of a pipe ; with this difference however , that in the former case condensation is turned into ...
... student should carefully compare with that of [ § 21 ] , it is clear that reflection takes place at an open , as well as at a closed end of a pipe ; with this difference however , that in the former case condensation is turned into ...
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... student may acquire some facility in hand- ling them . The vibration - fraction of an assigned interval expresses the ratio of the numbers of vibrations performed in the same time by the two notes which form the interval . The ...
... student may acquire some facility in hand- ling them . The vibration - fraction of an assigned interval expresses the ratio of the numbers of vibrations performed in the same time by the two notes which form the interval . The ...
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absolute pitch Accordingly air-column Cambridge chapters chords clang cloth coincides College combination-tone complete composite sounds concord condensation consonance and dissonance contains corresponding crest Crown 8vo direction discord dissonance effect ELEMENTARY TREATISE equal temperament exactly examine fact Fifth follows fork forms of vibration Fourth fundamental tone harmonium heard Helmholtz Hence higher human voice Illustrations instrument intensity inversion Lectures length level-line loudness lower Major scale Major Third ment Minor Seventh Minor Sixth mode of vibration motion musical sound nodes notation obtained octave open pipe original overtones pair partial-tones particle pendulum pianoforte piston pitch position present principles produced Professor prong pulse pulse-length rapid rarefaction resonance result scale shown simple tones single musical stopped pipe string student swing theory tion tonic Tonic Sol-Fa triads trough tube tuning tuning-fork unison ventral segments vibration-fraction vibration-numbers vibrations per second wave-form wires
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