Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Plain song of the Roman Church was composed within the diatonic scale of alternate tones and hemitones which had been the invention of the Greek race. In the modes, as they were called, of this church music, different notes of the diatonic scale held the position of expectancy. The multiple melody of the Polyphonic style which was the first form assumed by concerted music in Europe, being composed in one or other of these modes gave to either one or other of the notes A C D E F or G (modes in B being unused) the place of tonic...
Following is an abstract of Mr. Gilman's fourth lecture on Scale in the course on the Psychology of Music, given in Sever 11 last evening...
...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 same order of intervals. Such a generic interval order is called a scale...
...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 perhaps find evidence of an independent tendency in vocal music to exhibit scale-structure...
...conceive that such vocal scales have been modified by the conditions of independent instrumental performance and by mechanical considerations of instrumental construction and use we have means of explaining most of the various varieties of scale at present known. The scale of seven steps, tones and semitones, to the octave, known since classic times as the Diatonic, has been the basis of nearly all European music...