A supplementary system for indicating stress is the device of linking successive notes together by beaming, or stroking.
The three-quarter tempo — now minuetlike, now waltzlike — acquires a strange drama, and in intervening passages of urgent trills on successive notes, that drama becomes yet more intense.
Early vocal music like Gregorian chant often uses a melismatic style, in which a single syllable of text is sung between successive notes.
To determine whether birds also maintain these stable relationships between notes, Araya-Salas devised a statistical test that measures how often the successive notes in a bird's song adhere to musical scales.
Commentators thus tend to identify diatonic and pentatonic stacks as "tone clusters" only when they consist of four or more successive notes in the scale.
One reason may be that as the number of scale tones that divide an octave decreases, the distance between successive notes necessarily increases.
Although the magnitude of pitch change from one note to the next increased from the beginning to the end of each melody in opposite directions, the octave-change ratios of successive notes were identical, viz., 1/8, 1/8, 2/8, 1/8, 1/8, 2/8, 3/8 and 2/8.
- «as many terminal buds dying, as new ones generated» In successive notes (e.g. [[ 98], B§23,24]) he refers to "the tree of life", and wondered whether "(t)he tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life" [[ 98], B§25].
You receive a certain number of points for each note you hit, but stringing together 10 successive notes will increase your score multiplier so that you get twice as many points per note.
Failing a song or missing a note (or even a dozen) is not the end of the world; and you'll be less likely to hit successive notes if you are too tense.
