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... Major - General , Royal Engineers . Secretary to the North American Boundary Hayton ; Henry the Navigator . { Hayes , Rutherford B. Commission , 1858-1862 . British Commissioner on the Servian Boundary Com - Hierapolis ( in part ) ...
... Major - General , Royal Engineers . Secretary to the North American Boundary Hayton ; Henry the Navigator . { Hayes , Rutherford B. Commission , 1858-1862 . British Commissioner on the Servian Boundary Com - Hierapolis ( in part ) ...
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... major 3rd has thus in this scheme asserted itself as a concord , and the fundamental principle of the identity of octaves produces the result that any combination of a bass note with a major 3rd and a perfect 5th above it , at any ...
... major 3rd has thus in this scheme asserted itself as a concord , and the fundamental principle of the identity of octaves produces the result that any combination of a bass note with a major 3rd and a perfect 5th above it , at any ...
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... major chord ( or at least its skeleton ) necessary for the final point of repose in a composition , but it could not itself sound final unless the concords as well as the discords before it showed a well - defined tendency towards it ...
... major chord ( or at least its skeleton ) necessary for the final point of repose in a composition , but it could not itself sound final unless the concords as well as the discords before it showed a well - defined tendency towards it ...
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... major at first produced a chaos of style . chord ; or when , in the Incarnatus of his Mass in D , he makes a free use of the Dorian scale , he is actuated by precisely the same harmonic and aesthetic motives as those of the wonderful ...
... major at first produced a chaos of style . chord ; or when , in the Incarnatus of his Mass in D , he makes a free use of the Dorian scale , he is actuated by precisely the same harmonic and aesthetic motives as those of the wonderful ...
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... major chord is known as the Tierce de Picardie . ) The effect of the minor mode is thus normally plaintive because it centres round the artificial concord instead of the natural ; and , though the keynote bears this minor artificial ...
... major chord is known as the Tierce de Picardie . ) The effect of the minor mode is thus normally plaintive because it centres round the artificial concord instead of the natural ; and , though the keynote bears this minor artificial ...
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