Sentences with phrase «of a musical scale»
Four introduces a discussion of musical scales and the theory of relativity.
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Language can be thought of as a fairly random sequence of musical pitches, far more complex than the notes of a musical scale.
Similar to the inability to sing more than half an octave of a musical scale, the range of our eyes perceives only a limited portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of musical scales as well.
Skirts, sheets, and underwear hanging from a line under a blue sky become jellyfish suspended in an endless sea; the clothesline itself might be the bars of a musical scale.
Pumped up with air from a master udder, they emit the tones of the musical scale through long tubes.
In music, Pythagoras showed that the notes of the musical scale were not arbitrary but reflected the tones produced by a lute string — or any string — when its length was subdivided precisely into such simple ratios as 2:1 or 3:2.