Author : Hemenway Southwestern Expedition
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230192680
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Book Synopsis A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology Volume 5 by : Hemenway Southwestern Expedition
Download or read book A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology Volume 5 written by Hemenway Southwestern Expedition and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the reproduction was accepted without difficulty by the ear as a unison with one of the harmonium semitones, the note corresponding to the latter was written alone. 2. The sign (--) was used whenever the reproduction could by an effort, yet not without effort, be regarded as in unison with one of the harmonium semitones. In these instances I found it possible to make either one sound higher by simply choosing that it should. The sign was written under or over the note corresponding to the harmonium semitone in question, according as a fresh comparison without predetermined result after a few moments' rest made the reproduction above or below it. 3. The sign-was used whenever it was impossible either to regard the reproduction as a unison with any harmonium semitone or to regard it as nearest to any but one. The sign was written under or over the note corresponding to the nearest semitone, according as the reproduction sounded below or above this. 4. The sign = was used whenever there was doubt as to which of two adjacent harmonium semitones was the nearest to the reproduction. In these instances it proved possible to make either one sound nearer by simply choosing that it should. The sign was written with the note corresponding to that of the pair on the harmonium to which a fresh double comparison, after a few moments, without predetermined result, made the reproduction seem nearer, and over or under it according as the reproduction sounded above or below this. The suggestion for such a symbolism is to be found in the use by Hauptmann and Helmholtz of a bar under or over the letter for a certain step in the diatonic scale, to indicate divergence from this step in the minute interval of the comma. Applied in notations of music, the device...