Sentence examples for musical measures from inspiring English sources

Shen Kuo even took an interdisciplinary approach to archeological study, in order to aid his work in astronomy, mathematics, and recording ancient musical measures.

Shen used ancient texts and existing models of armillary spheres to create one based on ancient standards; Shen described ancient weaponry such as the use of a scaled sighting device on crossbows; while experimenting with ancient musical measures, Shen suggested hanging an ancient bell by using a hollow handle.

Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a healthy scepticism for established authority, the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation, an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm, as well as the illuminative progeny to expect from a marriage of mathematics and experiment.

Graces notes are notes played in a specific rhythm before the first note in a musical measure.

A sensibility as refined as Mr. Franks's requires nothing less than musical textures measured out in quarter-teaspoons.

"The Artist," as aggressively entertaining as any musical, is measured in its mourning and eclectic in its nostalgia for old movies.

In Adès's "Tevót" — the title is Hebrew for "arks," and also for musical bars or measures — lyrical release is not a momentary digression but the final goal.

The second deals with acoustics, intervals (distances between notes), musical genres, scales, measures of instruments, the theory of composition, rhythm, and the mathematical aspects of music.

Choreography must realise its own form, one independent of the musical form though measured to the musical unit.

Stravinsky has emphasized: Choreography must realise its own form, one independent of the musical form though measured to the musical unit.

The monochord was used in Greece by the 6th century bc as a scientific instrument for measuring musical intervals.