Mercury and Mars, with their more elliptical orbits had a much greater range of notes to emit.
Most of the songs are protracted vamps, with a limited range of notes dancing on an extended single line.
Most inspiring to aficionados is the "music of the hounds," when they howl in a range of notes when they catch the scent.
The coalescence of a wide range of notes into a monomaniacal unison may tell us most of what we need to know about the crushed soul of the future tycoon Daniel Plainview.
This highly unusual tune uses a wide range of notes and is "crooked"; it has an uneven number of beats per measure in the first and second parts of the song, causing them to fold into one another almost indistinctly.
His pitch has become more generalized, so that he seemed as if he were singing a whole range of notes at once; his vibrato has become more pronounced, a constant deep throb.
Lomax wrote that the exactly milled and tuned strings of the guitar offered "a range of notes that, with the subtle manipulation of finger and slide, can be made to emit the nuance of speech and really talk the blues in every region, as well as define other wordless feelings with the utmost delicacy".
Howard, however, was fundamentally a classical stage actor who, in the tradition of John Gielgud and Paul Scofield, was a perfectly-tuned musical instrument made flesh, producing an extraordinary range of notes – bass to alto, fortissimo to pianissimo – to orchestrate the score of the text, especially Shakespearean verse.
And it is amazing to hear the shades of suggestion that are milked from the slim range of notes allowed the evening's two singers, at least those in the performance I saw: the tenor John Duykers (who alternates with Tony Boutte) and the baritone Herbert Perry (who alternates with Eugene Perry).
And even with a new second-act number (written not long before Bock died in 2010) in which Fiorello bares his soul after losing both his first mayoral run and his first wife, the character remains a gleaming brass instrument with a limited range of notes to play.
The instrument produced a range of notes similar to many modern flutes.
