- The doctrine or science of musical sounds. - Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any
principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the
fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the
artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the
impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or
column vibrate; overtones.
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