Word: constraint
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe that coercion +++aosters a distaste for religious matters which in the end amounts to opposition. In consideration, whereof, we recommend that system which would remove from the student the constraint arising from the present system, and leave him freedom of choice...
...that the changes of pitch they exhibit are not contiguous but discrete: a musical composition consists of a mass of different notes, the closest together of which in pitch are still distinctly separate. In the vocal production of tone this character of discontinuity is the result of a constraint exercised upon the organs of voice; in the case of most instruments of music nothing else is possible. The hypothesis that the suggestion for an art of discontinuous pitch came from the notes of sounding bodies is a theory of the instrumental origin of the art of music...