The instrument was not initially favored by classical organ purists, because the tones of two notes an octave apart were in exact synchronization, as opposed to the slight variation present on a pipe organ.
It contains one of Poulenc's rare excursions into dodecaphony, with the brief employment of a twelve-note tone row.
Many tones can be created by filtering out some of the tones of the audible notes.
His "Joyous Celebration of the Memory of the Master Johann Sebastian Bach" had a tone-row composed of the notes B, A, C, and H (in the German notation), of these inverted, and of these transposed; and there were four movements, the first played on instruments beginning with the letter b, the second on instruments beginning with the letter a, and so on.
Sometimes, along with the reverential tones, there is something of a jarring Crazy Eddie note.
Joe Bader tried setting the two tones of his invention four notes apart on the musical scale, but the result sounded like music, not a siren.
"Creep," as Butt-head must have noticed, was the first of many Radiohead songs that used pivot tones, in which one note of a chord is held until a new chord is formed around it.
Does that make you feel a little hopeless?" "The fact that he was H.I.V.-positive made things more complicated," Khan said, in the tone of a clinician consulting her notes.
A variation on the feel of the quarter note walking Bassline is created by playing an eighth note on the beat immediately preceded by a sixteenth note of the same tone and followed be a sixteenth rest.
