Whenever, in short, the eye is affected with one prevailing colour, it sees at the same time the spectral or accidental colour, just as when a musical string is vibrating, the ear hears at the same time its fundamental and its harmonic sounds.
Among the discoveries of modern science, there are few more remarkable than those which relate to the production of harmonic sounds.
The subdivision of the string, and consequently the production of harmonic sounds, may be effected without touching the string at all, and by means of a sympathetic action conveyed by the air.
In these few, bold strokes one who knew him by virtue of close art and race kinship, presents an incomparable outline sketch of the Polish tone-poet who explored the harmonic vastness of the pianoforte and made his own all its mystic secrets.
In that case it would be analyzed as to its form, its tonal structure, its harmonic relations, its phrasing and rhythms, and its musical intention would become luminous.
In common with other reformers he was accused of "sacrificing the pleasures of the ear to vain harmonic speculations.
It is incumbent on the interpreter of music to ascertain the harmonic and other causes which determine the tempo of a musical composition, as well as those which make slight variations from it admissible.
Their individual characteristics afforded him continually new suggestions in regard to tone-coloring, and he rose often to audacity, for his time, in his harmonic devices.
The Poetry and Leadership of Chopin 135 Rubinstein on Polish patriot and tone-poet who explored harmonic vastness of pianoforte.
He enriched it with new melodic, harmonic and rhythmic devices adapted to itself alone, and endowed it with a warmth of tone-coloring that spiritualized it for all time.
New chord extensions, passages of double notes, arabesques and harmonic combinations were devised by him and he so systematized the use of the pedals that the most varied nuances could be produced by them.
Only a certain rigidity in the harmonic changes and a slight exaggeration in the melodic line betray a non-'classical' feeling," wrote one annotator.
The harmonic structure could hardly be called modern in this anno domini 1953," writes Donald Engle, "and the scoring is generally open and concise, at times even spare and lean.
This innovating strain has affected not only the harmonic idiom, but also the melodic inflection, orchestration, and stage technique.
The rhythms are clear-cut, and while the thematic lines are simple, they are accompanied by most original harmonic sequences, alert and rapid.
The horns then play it and, following a brief middle sequence with unusual leaps, the tune ends in a harmonic combination of flutes, oboes, horns and trumpets.
The harmonic form of the scale of C minor should then be taken, the children identifying the two notes new to them as the flattened third and sixth of the scale.
It consists in giving to the third and sixth of the harmonic form of the scale their logical names of maw and taw.
Every kind of bowing and fingering, the portamento, harmonic effects, arpeggios and their evolution from various chords, are all ably treated, and the work concludes with a few remarks on orchestral playing which are of especial interest.
Simply, it is the fixed point of a sonorous chord, at which it divides itself, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic sounds.
There is a short and very characteristic report from him on the work of the harmonic analyser, and a considerable number upon researches by Mr. Dines or Sir G.
It is the first harmonic or octave of the lowest of these faint notes that forms the bottom note of the scale of the three-holed pipe.
Then all the finger holes are again closed, and by a little extra impulse given to the breath A is sounded, being the harmonic 5th of the lower D.
But it is quite clear that Mersenne included the faint D an octave below the lowest harmonic note, so that Price could produce an interval of three octaves but a continuous scale of only two octaves.
In the penny whistle, and most wood-wind instruments, the octave or first harmonic gives the means of extending the scale.
Then follow B and C asharmonic 5ths of E and F, and the final D as the octave of the lowest tone.
Plate VII--The Harmonic or Solar Hand, indicates a character of great versatility, brilliant in conversation, and an adept in diplomacy.
The art (for such indeed it may be described) of harmonic analysis consists in deducing from the hourly observations the facts with regard to each of the constituent tides.
When by the aid of the harmonic analysis the effectiveness of the several constituent tides affecting a port have become fully determined, it is of course possible to predict the tides for that port.
The decomposition is effected by the process known as harmonic analysis.
It is an undeniable fact that with very high frequencies, provided the impulses be of harmonic nature, like those obtained from an alternator, there is less deterioration and the vacua are more permanent.
Experience undoubtedly has shown, that for such purposes a harmonic rise and fall of the potential is preferable.
Frequency alone in reality does not mean anything, except when an undisturbed harmonic oscillation is considered.
There is indeed little doubt that with Mr. Tesla's devices, harmonic and synchronous telegraphy will receive a fresh impetus, and vast possibilities are again opened up.
The currents should be of a harmonicrise and fall, without sudden interruptions.
Our race is one, the interests of all are inseparably united, and harmonic freedom for the perfect growth of every human soul is the great want of our time.
When that day shall arrive, it will be clearly perceived that in the true Harmonic Order "woman and her brother are pillars in the same temple and priests of the same worship.
Experiments conducted with this instrument show that the vowel U=oo is composed of the fundamental note very strong and the third harmonic (viz.
The remaining resonators of the harmonic series with their capsules and gas-jets respond in the same manner to the overtones proper to each vowel sound when the fundamental note is sung.
The Harmonic Society was instituted under the patronage of Dr.
Besides the Public Library, the circulating libraries are numerous and well supplied, and the harmonic concerts and local institutions of a literary character, are easily accessible.
Every harmonic and melodic idea of the composer is there; one can trace just as clearly the subtle processes of his mind; every step in the working out of the materials is just as plain.
In order, however, to obtain an harmonic on the cromorne, the cap would have to be discarded, for a reed only overblows to give the harmonic overtones when pressed by the lips.
A harmonic analyser is an instrument which determines these integrals, and is therefore an integrator.
In Lord Kelvin's instrument the curve to be analysed is drawn on a cylinder whose circumference equals the period c, and the sine and cosine terms of the integral are introduced by aid of simple harmonic motion.
The harmonic analysers described below are examples of instruments for evaluating such integrals.
Such a breach of the harmonic law would be called a mistake, but when it is a breach of Christ's moral law it is more than a mistake, it is a wrong.
In many old squares some of the dampers fall upon nodal points, causing defective damping orharmonic after-tones.
False waves will occur in an annoying degree when the tuner sets a mute on a nodal point in the string; it will cause the muted string to sound a real harmonic tone.
For illustration, if the string be tuned to 1C, the harmonic tone produced as above will be 2G.
The one consideration that, in all probability, no single musical sound comes to us alone, but each one is accompanied by its choir of ascending harmonic sequences, is sufficient to afford matter for many a wholesome and delightful meditation.
Soon after the founding of the Sacred Harmonic Society, that is about the beginning of the Victorian era, came the palmy days of Italian opera in London.
In one particular and important case the form of the current curve is a simple harmonic curve or simple sine curve.
The most extravagant harmonic effects and the most abominable discords are softened and almost disappear in the wonderful combination of timbres.
As for Debussy's harmonic language, his originality does not consist, as some of his foolish admirers have said, in the invention of new chords, but in the new use he makes of them.
York Minster, my ear acknowledged the yet more transcendent, harmonicadvantages of the Gothic boast of Lichfield.
