Word: partials
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Partial revision is possible and desirable...
...frustrate this design the Executive Committee put extra men to work, night as well as day, at double wages. So when the boarding mistresses closed their houses yesterday they were surprised to learn that the first meal would be ready at the new club that evening, and that the partial famine would thus be averted...
...been put in to pitch, and if he can hold out nine innings will be by far the best man for the place. Mackie, who has taken Dickinson's place at first, has been unable to play with the nine until within the last few days. Notwithstanding his partial want of practice, he will play a strong game at first, and as he is a swift thrower, will be put in to pitch if Dickinson gives out. Paine, who will play left field is another new man, but not so well known as Mackie. He played a good game...
...different notes of the scale. In a music of chords composed under the influence of the feeling of tonality the triad on the tonic becomes the most important of all possible combinations of notes and appears at all points of close in a composition. At points of rest the partial satisfaction of the tonic demand given by the sound of the note A. fifth above (or dominant) suffices. To these two chords, together with that on the subdominant or fifth below the tonic the harmony of simpler compositions is in general confined. That one of the old church tonalities...
...disagreeableness of the strong and rapid pulsations of sound formed by very near tones, which in his theory of Timbre accounts for the aesthetic superiority of notes with a few integral overtones to all others. He has shown that in all of the intervals called dissonant, some of the partial 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...