Sentence examples for musical interval from inspiring English sources

The album's title is a Latin term for "The Devil in Music", a musical interval known for its dissonance.

This six-note series, or hexachord, facilitated the sight-reading of music by allowing the singer always to associate a given musical interval with any two syllables.

A quick crossword clue, "musical interval of eight tones", called for the answer OCTAVE.

Meantone temperament was oriented around major thirds (a musical interval, such as C E, covering four semitones).

"There's everything in there: pain, joy, perseverance, continuation," Ms. Monk said earlier about her favorite musical interval, the 10th.

Unlike western European neumes, they do not designate pitch; rather, they show the musical interval from the previous tone.

The scientific approach to music, in which musical intervals are expressed as numerical proportions, originated with them, as did also the more specific idea of harmonic "means".

Spaces and musical intervals, pauses and action follow the music as we go from work to work, space to space.

The heavenly bodies also appear to have moved in accordance with the mathematical ratios that govern the concordant musical intervals in order to produce a music of the heavens, which in the later tradition developed into "the harmony of the spheres".

Several treatises on other scientific topics are also attributed to Khayyam: a work on music theory that uses ratios to deal with musical intervals, another on weights and balances, and another on a mathematical problem in metallurgy.

The equal-tempered frequency scale used in Western classical music is not linear, but logarithmic due to the facts that humans perceive musical intervals approximately logarithmically.