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Unison

One or "As One", same as; in sympathy or Love.

(1) Having the same number of vibrations; homophonous.
(2) Music in octaves for mixed voices or instruments.
(3) Unisons; two or more parts playing in unison with each other, or at the octave, according to the character of the instrument or voice." [A Dictionary of Musical Terms; Novello, Ewer and Co., London, pre-1900]

Ramsay
Nine-tenths of a string, if stopped and acted on, gives a tone the ratio of 9:10, but if touched and acted on as a harmonic it gives a note which is three octaves and a major third above the whole string. If the remaining tenth of the string be acted on either as a stopped note or a harmonic it will give the same note which is three octaves and a major third above the whole string the ratio of 1:10, so that the stopped note of one-tenth and the harmonic of nine-tenths are the same. Indeed the bow acting on stopped note of one-tenth, on harmonic of nine-tenths, or on harmonic of one-tenth, produces the same note, as the note is the production of one-tenth in each case; for in the harmonic, whether you bow on the nine-tenths or the one-tenth, while it is true that the whole string is brought into play, yet by the law of sympathy which permeates the entire string, it vibrates in ten sections of one-tenth each, all vibrating in unison. This is what gives the harmonic note its peculiar brilliancy. [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 92]

See Also


Concordance
Concordant
Connecting Link
Equation
Frequency
Harmony
Law of Attraction
Law of Chemical Affinity
Law of Cycles
Law of Force
Law of Harmony
Law of Sympathetic Oscillation
Oneness
Resonance
Sympathetic Coincidence
Sympathetic Concordants
Sympathy
unity
Wave Number

Created by Dale Pond. Last Modification: Tuesday December 8, 2020 04:45:50 MST by Dale Pond.