| 单词 | musical scale |
| 例句 | Within the “symphony of voices,” Kepler believed that the speed of each planet corresponds to certain notes in the Latinate musical scale popular in his day—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In ancient Greece, Pythagoras was remembered for a different invention: the musical scale. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Mostel, who used musical scales as his themes, produces such disparate effects as the gentle soar of the elephant couple’s hot-air balloon and the loud eruption of their squeals. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Each of the album's songs was adapted into a bespoke iPad app, exploring ideas such as gravity, DNA and musical scales. Björk launches Kickstarter campaign to fund Biophilia app 2013-01-29T12:32:23Z A humble handful of hardware, ascending, descending, up and down in size, the sequence irresistibly recalls a musical scale. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Throughout this show, Creed's appetite for lumpen reality collides with a longing for harmony, the harmony of the musical scale. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z The shapes help those who can’t read music to identify the notes on a musical scale. Shape note singers keep American tradition alive 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z His mother, an amateur pianist who sang in the church choir, introduced him at 3 to musical scales on the piano. Bernie Worrell, keyboardist and songwriter for Parliament-Funkadelic, dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Such vocal beauty, such a dearth of musical scale. Ho, ho, no! 12 of the worst holiday albums of the last 20 years 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z A single taut string — in music referred to as a monochord — can be used to define the entire musical scale; and a tight string, drawn back with great force, can propel objects with deadly speed. Fred Sandback, creating lines and defying boundaries at the Glenstone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Where some listeners faulted him for playing out of tune, others praised him for exploiting a chromatic range far greater than the paltry 12 notes the Western musical scale offers. Von Freeman, Fiery Tenor Saxophonist, Dies at 88 2012-08-19T05:50:05Z Zukovsky's career can be measured out like the intervals of a musical scale. L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z And, puh-kee, ee, ee, ooh, wah, he works his voice up the musical scale, until, ultimately, he finds his lost falsetto. Ben Platt, From ‘Pitch Perfect’ to an Anxious Teen on Stage 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Naturally, Moshier expressed that interest in music, the commission enabling him to articulate his thoughts on a grander musical scale than he otherwise might have been able to do. An ode to Studs Terkel – conceived in jazz 2011-01-17T15:04:00Z We Three Things | Follow the Grid Grids might be the musical scales of the visual arts, the underlying metric by which space is paced, measured and intuited. | Follow the Grid 2010-11-23T14:38:00Z The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg rejected traditional harmonies and musical scales. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He discovered what he needed to make his characters come to life beneath the previously unexplored trapdoors of the musical scale, in the secret seams of the dictionary. The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us to Hear 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z He's referring, of course, to the sound-wave frequency of 440 cycles per second, producing the note A in the Western musical scale, and the standard frequency to which musical instruments are most often tuned. Aerosmith's Steven Tyler goes 'Out on a Limb' in new documentary on his solo album debut 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z When the chorus soars up the musical scale, it's like a rush of energy. Why does Taylor Swift write so many one-note melodies? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Rubin describes the colors she “sees” using the musical scale. A Blind Opera Singer’s Tools for Creativity 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Chords were unknown, and so were modern musical scales. The people who don’t get ‘Eleanor Rigby’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The similarities between the two songs, he said, stemmed from a “very unique” progression of chords moving down the musical scale that Wolfe used in “Taurus” and that appear in “Stairway” as well. Jury hears closing arguments in Led Zeppelin copyright infringement trial, begins deliberations 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z After graduation, VanOver put the scales of justice on the back burner in favor of musical scales. Detroit law student played with Kid Rock’s band 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Studies have shown that most bird song cannot be considered music, innately produced or not, because it does not follow human musical scales. Can Animals Ever Be Artists? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The intervals between heartbeats were translated into numerical sequences which were then mapped onto the musical scale. Was Beethoven Inspired By His Irregular Heartbeat? 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Human musical scales are governed by these same mathematical constraints. Birds found using human musical scales for the first time 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The grid of lights represent the notes of a musical scale. Grammy Award Winner Roger Linn Unveils A Next Generation Electronic Instrument 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Powered by the sun, the work, by Scott Smallwood, consisted of 12 devices that, around midday, emitted a chirping, beeping cacophony of melodic patterns drawn from a pentatonic musical scale. ‘In the Garden of Sonic Delights’ in Katonah 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z I personally find this a weak argument as there are a great number of musical scales used by humans. Can Animals Ever Be Artists? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z “Think of the musical scale — do, re, mi, fa — and imagine speaking in fa,” says Akiko Mizuki, a business manner expert on AllAbout.com. Japan’s Top Voice: High, Polite and on the Phone 2013-12-14T22:02:19Z Just as a musical scale can be used to make good or bad music, so the repertoire of positions in yoga can be put to Christian use. Does doing yoga make you a Hindu? 2013-11-21T00:27:08Z There he was taught drawing but also solfège, or musical scales. Letter from Europe: Jazz Warrior Defending Mali's Values 2013-02-01T14:30:08Z To determine whether birds also maintain these stable relationships between notes, Araya-Salas devised a statistical test that measures how often the successive notes in a bird's song adhere to musical scales. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z The opera is composed in the 12-tone or “serial” style, an eminently unhummable technique in which all 12 notes of the Western musical scale are used in rigorously equal proportion. Evelyn Lear, Versatile Soprano, Dies at 86 2012-07-05T01:10:53Z The standard A of our musical scale is produced by about four hundred and fifty vibrations in a second. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Gamut, gam′ut, n. the musical scale: the whole extent of a thing. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z We should not forget that the Chinese musical scale is set quite differently from ours, and is offensive to us chiefly because it is unfamiliar. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z But the study has convinced him that nightingale wrens do not follow Western musical scales. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z This notation can, with sufficient exactitude, be compared to that which is employed in the musical scale. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Of course there are other grays, not represented in the scale, just as there are tones of music not expressed in the musical scale or octave. Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.593Z It was thought that the distances of the planetary spheres from one another correspond to the intervals of a musical scale and that each sphere as it revolves sounds one note of the scale. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z In the great human creations, in the twelve notes of the musical scale, in the twenty six letters of the alphabet, these fantastic structural inventions have unlocked the enormous creativity of literature and music. The Single Best idea For Reforming K-12 Education: Part 2 2011-09-05T12:23:55Z Although a jazz singer may add a vocal slide for stylistic effect, the notes themselves are stable and fit within a recognizable musical scale. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z By harmonic numbers Timæus means those that are proportional to those representing the consonances of the musical scale. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The musical scale and this value scale are used to help locate all other notes and all other degrees of light and dark. Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.593Z Darwin notes that even a perfect musical scale can be found in nature. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z So through the musical scale went the experiments, each yielding a new and distinct form where the notes differed. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Some persons conjecture, that the Tibiæ pares were a set of two or more pipes of the same pitch in the musical scale, and Impares such as did not agree in pitch603. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He attempted to solve the question by determining the positions of the holes according to the exigencies of fingering instead of subordinating them to the more arbitrary theories connected with the musical scale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Two tones had been, in his life, stolen away from the musical scale of love; he had never known by experience what it was to love a brother or a sister. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z Joe Bader tried setting the two tones of his invention four notes apart on the musical scale, but the result sounded like music, not a siren. City Critic: The New Police Siren: You?ll Feel It Coming 2011-02-27T00:52:32Z Tune there is none—each playing according to the dictates of his own taste, unguided by any musical scale. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z I spent the next 10 years—in addition to the required academic curriculum—taking pottery workshops, memorizing Shakespearean monologues, and perfecting musical scales. Dancing, Publishing, and the Didgeridoo 2010-09-28T15:51:00Z The musical scale consists of eight notes, C D E F G A B C, whose frequencies are in the proportion of the numbers 24, 27, 30, 32, 36, 40, 45 and 48. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Fortunately the song has so much character and its intervals conform so closely to those of our musical scale, that a recognizable imitation of it is within the power of everyone. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season I found that the two notes which syllabled themselves to my ear as "see-e he-e-re!" were prefaced by a low, staccato utterance like "quick!" and all were on the same note of the musical scale. Upon The Tree-Tops Out rolled four notes of astonishing volume—the first four notes of the musical scale. The Pathless Trail When vocal sounds are whispered, each vowel seems to possess a particular pitch of its own, and by whispering certain vowels in succession a musical scale can be distinctly perceived. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery To all sorts of notes in the musical scale the voices of these dogs ranged, they seeming to spare no pains to give varied entertainment. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska These colors will be found like a musical scale, to harmonize well in almost any combination. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society First, there is a musical scale in the laws of the air itself, exactly answering to the musical sense or law of the soul. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Think of the English language, basic business methods, tables of logarithms, the Pythagorean theorem, Shakespeare's insights about human nature, the periodic table, Ohm's law, the sonnet form, the musical scale. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind A measured and unchanging scale is as necessary and valuable in the training of the eye as the musical scale in the discipline of the ear. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma It never rose to a high key, and from the beginning to the end, its variation in tone was no more than two notes of the musical scale. Footprints in the Forest I did not know before that coastguard corporals, like musical scales and Hebrew prophets, could be either major or minor. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions "People tell you to speak up," said that excellent elocutionist, Mr Simeon; "but I say, speak down," down as regards the musical scale. To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work Illustrating Vibrations Sound Waves.—Sound waves are long and short; the long waves giving sounds which are low in the musical scale, and the short waves high musical tones. Electricity for Boys Who would think of teaching the musical scale with a piano out of tune? A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma It was formed of seven, eight or nine short hollow reeds, fixed together by wax, and cut in graduated lengths so as to produce a musical scale. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments The tone produced was of crystalline purity, and by varying the size and length of the cylinders it proved possible to represent a complete musical scale. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula He therefore contented himself with restoring the Ambrosian chants as far as possible; but the musical scales established by Ambrose he somewhat enlarged, adding to them four other scales called plagal. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Use the blackboard and the musical scale for illustration and reference. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 He is, in fact, the fourth in the musical scale, as Philo remarks, and Martianus Capella in his hymn to the Sun. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Pythagoras reduced the musical scale to a mathematical science. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers By making a proper selection of joints it would be possible to obtain a set capable of producing a perfect musical scale. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The loud and cheerful song of this little feathered exquisite is a tune of six or seven notes that ascend and descend the musical scale. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Using the musical scale for reference it may be said that in ordinary speech they are generally of but one, or, at most, two notes. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Sun, the moderator in the celestial harmony; fourth in musical scale, 410-m. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry By its assistance we know, definitely, a great many things regarding our musical scale of which we would otherwise be ignorant. Piano Tuning A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs This simply means its place in the musical scale. Public Speaking The successive notes in one octave of the musical scale are related as follows:— Keys of C C D E F G A B C' No. of vibrations per sec. General Science His attempt to reconstruct the musical scale was afterwards overshadowed by the system invented by Guido d'Arezzo, and it is therefore unnecessary to describe it in detail. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Place your finger on your lip and hum the musical scale, thinking and placing the voice forward on the lips. The Art of Public Speaking The place in the musical scale on which an element is sounded. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading Then as the rate is increased the note rises one in the musical scale. The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Among the Chinese, we meet with a tradition according to which they obtained their musical scale from a miraculous bird called Foung-hoang, which appears to have been a sort of phoenix. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Furthermore, as there were six of these syllables, he arranged the musical scale in groups of six notes instead of four, hexachords instead of tetrachords. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Think of singing the musical scale and it will result in your singing it unless the counter-thought of its futility or absurdity inhibits your action. The Art of Public Speaking The boatswain's calls or "pipes" are very difficult to reduce to a musical scale, because the pitch of the instrument depends entirely on the amount of energy expended by the blower. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Then, one after another, all the notes of the musical scale appear, rising higher and higher as the motion is increased. The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece To her is attributed the invention of the systematic arrangement of the sounds into a musical scale. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Coming now to the consideration, not of differences, but similarities, it is clear that a correspondence can be established between the colors of the spectrum and the notes of a musical scale. Architecture and Democracy But the scale of mental and emotional states is far more complex, and far more extended than is the musical scale; there are thousands of different notes, and half-notes, on the mental scale. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers It was that sweet, sophisticated, vicious soubrette laughter which begins with the musical scale and ends in a long coo. The Indian Lily and Other Stories By putting to confusion the musical scale, and destroying fifes and lutes, by deafening the ears of the blind Kuang, then, at last, will the human race in the world constrain his sense of hearing. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books It is a very remarkable fact that while the course of evolution is generally from simpler to more complex organisms, that of the musical scale is just the reverse. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama In the musical scale there is a practical equality of values: one note is as potent as another. Architecture and Democracy I have often attempted to transcribe some of their notes upon the musical scale, but I am persuaded that such sketches can be only approximations to literal correctness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 At first three distinct musical notes are heard in the echo; I mean different notes upon the musical scale, as distinct from each other as "do, sol, do." Round the World It is like a ninth new note in the musical scale—not to be attained. The Secret Power Nay, he liked Beethoven, which places him higher in the musical scale than Scott, who did not rise above a Border lilt or a Jacobite ditty. Alfred Tennyson His palette, like his musical scale, was more limited than ours. Architecture and Democracy We are more concerned with melody, and here again, according to Helmholtz, it is intelligible why the notes of our musical scale are used. The Descent of Man The elements of all speech, like the elements of the musical scale, are few and simple, though admitting of infinite gradations and combinations. Cratylus The harmony of the musical scale, which is elsewhere used as a symbol of the harmony of the state, is also indicated. The Republic These effects must indeed, in some way or other, be connected with the well-known arithmetical relations between the rates of vibration of the sounds which form a musical scale. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals |
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