Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 · New York : Appleton · leaf 414
corresponds to the fifth, the disso- CONSONANCE AND DISSONANCE SHOWN GRAPHICALLY. 405 nance almost vanishes. At a we have the major sixth;while at c, where the one note is an octave above theother, the dissonance entirely vanishes. The e s and thea s, of this diagram, are the German names of a flat… … to say, beginning with the octave c—c, and gradually ele-vating the pitch of one of the strings, till it reaches <?, theoctave of c, the curved line represents the effect upon theear. We see, from both these curves, that dissonance is thegeneral rule, and that only at certain definite points…
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