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The Claims of Japan and Malaysia upon Christendom : exhibited in notes of voyages made in 1837, from Canton, in the ship Morrison and brig Himmaleh, under direction of the owners, v.2 Page 227

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King, C. W.
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New York: E. French, 1839, pg 227

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THE HIMMALEH. 227 -rar--,- 1 r* I ir - a -...... s s ! * a 4ft A # -0- L# 1aJ Pf It had a melanchaly but a pleasing effect, especially when two or more were moving in cadence with each other ; but it is evident at first sight, that this is not susceptible of any analysis by a reference to the principles of modern music, and one unused to such matters might therefore throw it aside as an odd and knotty thing not worth the trouble of a second consideration. But this would be a mistake ; for if we express the notes by letters, we have two tetrachords or intervals of a fourth, with their half-tones between the second and third notes, thus : e a a b^c d The slur marks the situation of the half-tone. We have resolved the scale, therefore, into two symmetrical halves, and found that it is composed of two conjunct tetrachords. This is oneThe slur marks the situation of the half-tone. We have resolved the scale, therefore, into two symmetrical halves, and found that it is composed of two conjunct tetrachords. This is one
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