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The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

ll, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.

ute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments.

er of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

ith the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmoni…

s (Music), the simple tones which in combination form an ordinary tone; the overtones, or harmonics, which, blending with a fundamental tone, cause its special quality of sound, or timbre, or tone color. See, also, Tone.

A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reënforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.

be is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

ape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to a…