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" ... and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up to the double octave. Then, having constructed niches in between the seats of the theatre... "
Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture - Page 131
by Vitruvius Pollio - 1914 - 331 pages
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Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius Pollio - Architecture - 1914 - 378 pages
...between two intervals or between three or six or seven; but, as written above, it is only the harmonies of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up to the double octave, that have boundaries naturally corresponding to those of the voice: and these concords are produced...
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Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius Pollio - Architecture - 1914 - 388 pages
...between two intervals or between three or six or seven; but, as written above, it is only the harmonies of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up to the double octave, that have boundaries naturally corresponding to those of the voice: and these concords are produced...
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Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius Pollio - Architecture - 1914 - 386 pages
...between two intervals or between three or six or seven; but, as written above, it is only the harmonies of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up to the double octave, that have boundaries naturally corresponding to those of the voice: and these concords are produced...
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Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius Pollio - Architecture - 1914 - 378 pages
...between two intervals or between three or six or seven; but, as written above, it is only the harmonies of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up to the double octave, that have boundaries naturally corresponding to those of the voice: and these concords are produced...
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Collected Papers on Acoustics

Wallace Clement Sabine - Architectural acoustics - 1922 - 304 pages
...should be made, proportional in size to the size of the theatre, and so fashioned that when sounded they produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on to the double octave. These vessels should be placed in accordance with musical laws in niches between...
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Collected Papers on Acoustics

Wallace Clement Sabine - Architectural acoustics - 1922 - 302 pages
...should be made, proportional in size to the size of the theatre, and so fashioned that when sounded they produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on to the double octave. These vessels should be placed in accordance with musical laws in niches between...
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Sensory Design

Joy Monice Malnar, Frank Vodvarka - Architecture - 2004 - 396 pages
...and follows immediately with a section that deals with the use of sounding vessels. Here he states: In accordance with the foregoing investigations on...vessels be arranged in them, in accordance with musical laws.79 In short, musical principles must take precedence over the architectural principles Vitruvius...
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