Defn: A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reënforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.
If I were only young Miranda, now, Instead of a poor clerkly drudge at desk All day, poor artist vainly bruising brush On palette, poor musician scraping gut With horsehair teased that no harmonics come!
In performing on the fourth string only, he introduces the harmonics as part of the regular scale, thus obviating, in effect, all deficiency as to compass.
Such coincidences are less likely with the lower harmonics than with the higher.
Sentimental people, in her phrase, 'fiddle harmonics on the strings of sensualism,' to the delight of a world gaping for marvels of musical execution rather than for music.
Fiddle in harmonics as it may, it will have these gratifications at all costs.
Judging from her look and her reputation, Emma divined that the man was justly mated with a devious filmy sentimentalist, likely to 'fiddle harmonics on the sensual strings' for him at a mad rate in the years to come.
His harmonics are always clear, simple, and of extraordinary sonorousness.
The theme is simply set forth, and the variations serve for the display of bravura playing with pizzicato and harmonics in the second movement, fourth string melody, and double harmonics in the third, and with the Finale resembling a Galopade.
The naturalharmonics were of course known to all violinists, but the artificial harmonics, if not the invention of Paganini, were first employed by him as integral features of his compositions as well as of his performances.
We see from these facts that there is a correspondence between the existence of the higher harmonics and the diminished length of the resonator.
Each resonator corresponds from below upwards to the harmonics of the fundamental note c.
This difference in the timbre is due to harmonics or overtones.
These harmonics or overtones will be considered later when dealing with the timbre or quality of the human voice.
Klindworth strengthens the first and the seventh eighth notes of the fifth bar before the last by filling in the harmonics of the left hand.
It is in extendedharmonics and must be delivered with spirituality.
They forget that its opposite lurks in everything--that there areharmonics of God in the Devil and harmonics of the Devil in God.
We want a measure which shall express, or at any rate recognise, the harmonics of resemblance that lurk even in the most absolute differences and vice versa.
The mathematical test of conjugacy is that the energy of the system arising from two of the harmonics existing together is equal to the sum of the energy arising from the two harmonics taken separately.
The small bore of the aulos in comparison to its length facilitated the production of the harmonics (cf.
A stopped pipe produces its fundamental tone one octave lower than the tone of an open pipe of corresponding length, and overblows the harmonics of the twelfth, and of the third above the second octave of the fundamental tone, i.
This is exactly how a performer on a modern clarinet or oboe produces the higher harmonics of the instrument.
To the original instrument specified in the patent, Halliday added a sixth key, which became the first and was in the normal position open; this key when closed gave B flat, with the same series of harmonics as the open tube.
Those which give out the fundamental tone and harmonics up to the eighth, such as the tubas and ophicleide.
Those in which the higher harmonics from the third or fourth to the twelfth or sixteenth are mostly used, such as the French horn and trumpet.
E flat, as that of D flat, of which the harmonics [Illustration] from the second to the sixth are available.
The laws are simpler, but they are of wholly other nature, and to cite only one of these differences, for the harmonics of high order, the number of vibrations tends toward a finite limit, instead of increasing indefinitely.
A first study of these distributions recalls theharmonics encountered in acoustics; but the difference is great.
When the vibration is not simple but compound, in consequence of the blending of vibrations corresponding to various harmonics or partial tones, the ear has the power of resolving this compound vibration into its elements.
He showed, both by analysis and by synthesis, that quality depends on the order, number and intensity of the overtones or harmonics that may, and usually do, enter into the structure of a musical tone.
If harmonics or partial tones of prime tones coincide, there are no beats; if they do not coincide, the beats produced will give a character of roughness to the interval.
The numerical ratios really represent the rate of vibration of the air when those harmonics are produced.
The negroes had gathered together on the deck and their voices rose together in a haunting melody that soared in poignant harmonics toward the moon.
By certain rhythms and vibratory modulations of the voice it is possible to produce harmonics of sound which awaken the inner name into life--and then to spell it out.
So magically intimate indeed was it, yet so potentially huge for all its soft beginning, that Spinrobin declares that what he heard was probably not the actual voices, but only some high liberated harmonics of them.
Other ranks added sounded the 12th, 19th, and so on, until it was possible to obtain not only the full common chord, but also some of the higher harmonics dissonant to this chord, from a single key.
But it was discovered empirically that by adding their harmonics artificially the organs could be brightened up and even made to overpower large bodies of singers.
Another kind of harmonics must now be described, called combinational or Tartini tones (from Tartini, a celebrated Italian violinist of the XVII century, who first described them).
Diapason Pipe with Leathered Lip] The dull tone of the old Diapasons was due to the absence of the upper harmonics or partials.
The harmonics produced from stopped pipes are entirely different from those of the open ones; their harmonic scale is produced by vibrations which are as 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
Although almost inaudible when played alone this stop generated harmonics which powerfully reinforced the tone of the full organ.
In this case the other strings of the piano act as resonators, enabling the harmonics to be heard.
The accompanists were startled, but the movement was finished without a change of reading, harmonics being substituted for the high notes of the E string.
He was the first to establish the rules of artificial harmonic playing, and his numerous passages in single and double harmonics attest the wonderful skill with which he applied them.
As an instance of their use may be cited the scene by the Nile at the beginning of the third act of Verdi's Aida, where harmonics are indicated for both 'cellos and double basses.
Both natural and artificial harmonics are possible on the double bass, the former being the best; but they are seldom used in orchestral works.
If one was restricted to the use of natural harmonics it would be impossible to play scale passages, or any passages foreign to the key of the four open strings.
The class of harmonics produced in this manner are termed "Natural Harmonics.
It is stated that Paganini used to play certain passages in harmonics after the above manner; harmonic tones may be produced on any stopped note, by the bow alone, as follows.
It is really surprising what an electrical effect on an audience has a well executed passage in harmonics; "harmonics excite wonder"!
To indicate artificial harmonics it is usual to write the stopped notes as an ordinary passage, then with the aid of blank notes the positions where the string has to be lightly touched are shown.
