A tone that is a component of a complex sound

Usage examples of harmonic.

To make the theory work there has to be some method of determining where each chord would be placed on the Harmonic Heptagon relative to previous chords that have already occurred in the tune.

For example, a musical note at 200Hz will have harmonics at 400Hz and 600Hz, and the ratio between these is 2:3, which corresponds to the harmonic interval that would exist between two notes with fundamental frequencies of 400Hz and 600Hz.

The Harmonic Heptagon provides a compact visualisation of all the consonant relationships between notes in the diatonic scale, and a trip once around the heptagon corresponds to one syntonic comma.

Harmonic Christers sect elected to leave their home planet, they chose this spaceship to carry them from Eleison to whatever world they might find and deem to be suitable.

As the high harmonic crowns the end of a long cadenza on a violin, fulfilling bars of difficult effort, this point of exquisite beauty flashed life into the Pattern of the story, consummating the labour of construction with the true, inevitable climax.

The harmonics are clearly visible in the vowel portions of the syllables.

The basic trick in constructing these tones is that the only harmonics are those with frequencies which are multiples of the fundamental frequency by powers of 2, i.

And we know that these are the same ratios that occur between frequencies of harmonics of individual sounds, for certain types of sounds.

It requires calibrations to be made against higher harmonics of very low frequency sounds, where the higher harmonics are in the range of the intervals that you are calibrating against.

This suggests that the brain does not bother to use higher harmonics for the purpose of calibrating comparisons of interval sizes.

The main reason to doubt that this type of arithmetic plays a significant role in the calibration of interval perception is the same as the second reason given above for supposing that higher harmonics are not involved in this calibration: complex fractions are not observed to be significant in music perception.

The flows shown by dashed arrows represent raw information about individual harmonics and processed information about timbre being included in the inputs to cortical maps that process melody.

But there are two ways to measure the rise in pitch: either we estimate each pitch value first, from the observed values of all the harmonics, and then calculate the ratio between the pitch value estimates, or, we calculate the corresponding ratio between each pair of corresponding harmonic frequencies, and then average these ratios to get our estimate of the change in pitch.

X and sound Y can be performed by comparing all the harmonics of sound X and all the harmonics of sound Y .

Charlie Mollier, the geologist, had reported strange seismic readings, harmonic vibrations radiating through the deep-sea mountain range.