Sentence examples for natural overtone from inspiring English sources

A fundamental tone — say, C in a C major scale — is central; the other pitches relate to it in a hierarchy of importance based on natural overtone relationships.

He was also impressed by the spectral harmony of younger composers like Gérard Grisey, created by reconstituting, with orchestral instruments, the natural overtone spectra of sounds.

Intuitively basing his studies on the natural overtone series, he arrived at a system of harmony that is the basis of most 20th-century harmony textbooks.

In the wind they vibrate in aliquot parts (i.e., in halves, thirds, fourths…), so that the strings produce the natural overtones (harmonics) of the fundamental note: octave, 12th, second octave, and so on.

She fearlessly leaned into the natural overtones called for in the part, allowing the raw, uncorrected notes to take shape in ways that were by turns rough and seductive.

If the twelfth fret tone is higher than natural octave overtone, then lengthen the string by moving the saddle back towards the tailpiece.

The authorities have observed that, as one of their spokesmen resentfully puts it, wherever Ptydepe has passed into common use, "it has automatically begun to assume some of the characteristics of a natural language: various emotional overtones, imprecisions, ambiguities".

Its notes follow the contour of the natural harmonic series — the rainbow of overtones that emanate from a vibrating string — and have the brightness of music in a major key.

Where the Japanese version uses sake to eliminate any fishy overtones and miso to highlight the fish's natural saltiness, the Western version relies on the far sweeter mirin.

Mr. Lessig's arguments in his books ("Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" and "The Future of Ideas") even have countercultural overtones, with their invocations of an earlier, more natural world disrupted by corporate power and misused technology.

Part of the attraction was that the cathedral's bells were tuned to produce an overtone a major third above the main note (an E natural if playing a C), rather than the minor third overtone (E flat if playing a C) that is the usual characteristic of carillons.