The North American Review, Volume 4Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge University of Northern Iowa, 1826 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... sounds , of which our voices or instruments are capa- ble , should be first of all divided into octaves . The division of sounds , if no regard were had to harmony , would be purely arbitrary ; we might divide the whole compass of one ...
... sounds , of which our voices or instruments are capa- ble , should be first of all divided into octaves . The division of sounds , if no regard were had to harmony , would be purely arbitrary ; we might divide the whole compass of one ...
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... sounds an oc- tave above another , vibrates just twice as fast ; so that two vi- brations of the higher , is made in the same time exactly , as one of the lower . This remarkable coincidence being proved and abundantly confirmed since ...
... sounds an oc- tave above another , vibrates just twice as fast ; so that two vi- brations of the higher , is made in the same time exactly , as one of the lower . This remarkable coincidence being proved and abundantly confirmed since ...
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... sounds an oc- tave above another , vibrates just twice as fast ; so that two vi- brations of the higher , is made in the same time exactly , as one of the lower . This remarkable coincidence being proved and abundantly confirmed since ...
... sounds an oc- tave above another , vibrates just twice as fast ; so that two vi- brations of the higher , is made in the same time exactly , as one of the lower . This remarkable coincidence being proved and abundantly confirmed since ...
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