Word: intervale
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Having examined the sensation with which music deals, or pitch; the forms in which it is presented to us, or notes; and the facts of relation in pitch or interval, we pass to the study of the works themselves of which music consists.
All the different tones used in a piece of music taken together embody a certain set of intervals arranged in a certain order from low to high. The fact of scale-structure in music is a second fundamental characteristic and consists in the tendency of different compositions to embody the...
In general different pieces of music played on the same instrument will all embody its interval order, and it is to this fact that we may attribute the entire subjection of the art of music to generic interval, orders or scales. But in the forms they have taken we may...
The development in modern music of a third structural characteristic, that of Tonality, has led to modifications in this interval-order to which reference will be made in the next lecture.
Interval is a characteristic quality which distinguishes the sound of all pairs of tones, the ratio of whose vibration numbers is the same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has...