The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 111
o give value to con-sonances which follow them, so in ar-chitecture simple ratios should be em-ployed in connection with those morecomplex. Harmonics are those tones whichsound with, and reinforce any musicalnote when it is sounded. The distinguishable harmonicsof the tonic yield the ratios 1:2,… … HOUSE IN ROME FROZEN MUSIC 105 turbs the quietude of that pool of silence which we call the air,it ripples into overtones, which becoming fainter and fainter,die away into silence. It would seem reasonable to assume thatthe combination of numbers which express these overtones, iftranslated into…
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