North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 4Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge University of Northern Iowa, 1965 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... octave with C. Whoever considers , that the number of different sounds is almost infinite , which might be placed between two notes , one an octave above the other , must naturally feel a strong desire to know why the precise number now ...
... octave with C. Whoever considers , that the number of different sounds is almost infinite , which might be placed between two notes , one an octave above the other , must naturally feel a strong desire to know why the precise number now ...
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... octave , and led to the adoption of the theory , that all harmony depends on coincidence of vibrations . I have before remarked , that universal experience has for ages approved of the diatonick scale now in use ; which di- vides the octave ...
... octave , and led to the adoption of the theory , that all harmony depends on coincidence of vibrations . I have before remarked , that universal experience has for ages approved of the diatonick scale now in use ; which di- vides the octave ...
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... octave two to one , and the double octave four to one ; and greater than can occur , between any two sounds within the compass of an octave . The fact , therefore , of a principal sound being attended by others , having in their ...
... octave two to one , and the double octave four to one ; and greater than can occur , between any two sounds within the compass of an octave . The fact , therefore , of a principal sound being attended by others , having in their ...
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