Word: ear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tones of one note must fall near enough to some of those of the other to produce this disagreeable interferference; while in all those called consonant the roughness from this source is insignificant in amount and the beauty of the tones involved can produce its full effect upon the ear. But later criticism has demanded a positive reason for the beauty of a concord and questions whether the character of an Interval depends to the extent asserted by Helmholtz upon the timbre of the notes comprising it. A view which may be ascribed to Von Oettingen points to the fact...
...noises. The pitch of a note is higher as the vibration causing it is faster. The lowest pitch is produced by about 16 vibrations per second, the highest by about 40,000. In the next lecture we shall study the forms in which pitch presents itself to the ear in the notes of the voice and instruments...
...choir sang the antheins: Q come ye servants of the Lord.- Tye; Behold, He that keepeth Israel.- H. S. Cutler; Give ear, O Lord,- Patterson...
...Zoological club will meet at the Museum this evening. Doors open from 7. 15 to 7.30. Papers on "Development of the Ear," by W. Whitney, "Origin of the Mesodemr," Dr. Mark, "Ribs in Vertibrates," S. H. Parker...
...fifty years ago, for many things done then by lawyers are now performed by others. The young lawyer must experience many years of patient waiting before he can hope for success, but if he employ these years of waiting in a profitable manner, if he keep brain, eye and ear alert and act always in an honorable manner, success will surely crown his efforts...