Organs and Organ Building: A Treatise on the History and Construction of the Organ, from Its Origin to the Present Day, with Important Specifications"The Bazaar" Office, 1881 - 248 pages |
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... semitones were introduced , though all the pictures of clavier organs possess them . The woodcut ( Fig . 4 ) shows a " simple clavier organ of the fourteenth century- " the one priest blowing two pairs of bellows while the other " beats ...
... semitones were introduced , though all the pictures of clavier organs possess them . The woodcut ( Fig . 4 ) shows a " simple clavier organ of the fourteenth century- " the one priest blowing two pairs of bellows while the other " beats ...
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... semitones , too , were now invariably found in their places ; they are said to have first been used in Venice , though the name of the actual builder who made them general is not known . It is believed that the great organ at Haberstadt ...
... semitones , too , were now invariably found in their places ; they are said to have first been used in Venice , though the name of the actual builder who made them general is not known . It is believed that the great organ at Haberstadt ...
Page 172
... semitones that we possess into equal proportions , for fifty - three will in no way bear equal unfractional division . Then we must remember that the old musical scale was Diatonic , without the extra semitones , and that it consisted ...
... semitones that we possess into equal proportions , for fifty - three will in no way bear equal unfractional division . Then we must remember that the old musical scale was Diatonic , without the extra semitones , and that it consisted ...
Page 174
... semitones , or black notes , were tuned either as sharps or flats to their immediate neighbours , for instance , the one representing F sharp , could not be used as G flat . As is always the case when even the most obvious advantages ...
... semitones , or black notes , were tuned either as sharps or flats to their immediate neighbours , for instance , the one representing F sharp , could not be used as G flat . As is always the case when even the most obvious advantages ...
Page 175
... semitones , twelve in number , are divided equally ; therefore ( b ) all the twenty - four keys are equally available - thus then ( c ) any semitone may be taken as a key note - and ( d ) any change may be made enharmonically , that is ...
... semitones , twelve in number , are divided equally ; therefore ( b ) all the twenty - four keys are equally available - thus then ( c ) any semitone may be taken as a key note - and ( d ) any change may be made enharmonically , that is ...
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