The essentials of æsthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1921)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York ; London : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 382
e, and making them visible,through using an intense ray of light to throw an imageof them upon a canvas in a darkened room,—the formsassumed by the vibrations caused by many of the ordi-nary musical instruments have been accurately ascer-tained. These forms have been resolved, according… … QUALITY IN MUSIC. 361 In short, investigations of this character have shownthat musical sounds may result, and usually do result,not from simple but from compound forms of vibrations;that is to say, in connection with the main waves thereare other waves. All these are not invariably present,but…
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