Word: generic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...piece of music taken together embody a certain set of intervals arranged in a certain order from low to high. The fact of scale-structure in music is a second fundamental characteristic and consists in the tendency of different compositions to embody the same order of intervals. Such a generic interval order is called a scale...
...general different pieces of music played on the same instrument will all embody its interval order, and it is to this fact that we may attribute the entire subjection of the art of music to generic interval, orders or scales. But in the forms they have taken we may perhaps find evidence of an independent tendency in vocal music to exhibit scale-structure...
...PITCH.The basis of music is the sensation of pitch. This is a generic sensation, like color, consisting of many elements which taken together form a continuous series between two extremes. With this continuum the spatial ideas of height and depth have come to be associated, for reasons derived both from the nature of the sensation and the conditions of its production at the two extremes. The sequence of different pitches presents itself to the mind as a movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness...