in order of decreasing consonance
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Fig. 102. — Optical images of five intervals arranged in order of decreasing consonance. (Zambiasi.) The vibrations of the two tones were combined vertically to obtain Lissajou’s figures; these were traced by a luminous point on a sensitive plate moving uniformly at such a rate that the entire course of the curve was traced in one-tenth of a second. The tones were produced by the vibrations of two tuning-forks, one of which had a small aperture illuminated by the sun, while the other had a lens through which the image of the slit was projected on to the photographic plate.
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ex Luigi Luciani, Human Physiology. Vol. IV (of V), The Sense Organs. London, 1917
University of Michigan copy, digitized February 5, 2008
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“According to Helmholtz it is this dissonance which gives to minor chords the contradictory indefinite character that renders them apt to express melancholy feelings.”
p 255
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whilst seaching “lachrymal fluid.”
tags:
contradictory indefinite character; curves; drawing; “lachrymal fluid”; melancholia; tuning; L. Luciani, The Sense Organs (1917)