"Resonating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the larynx are modified as to their form, by the size and shape of the resonating cavities of the mouth and pharynx. Through the movements of the soft-palate, tongue, lower jaw and lips, the shape and size of the mouth can, within certain limits, be changed at will. As every vowel-sound ...
— The Child-Voice in Singing • Francis E. Howard
... We here find this proposition, remarkable if we recall the time when the author lived, that: "If the ear did not count the vibrations, and did not seize the inequalities of movement of two sounds resonating by percussion, the intelligence would not be able to render account of them by the science of numbers." After Boethius there is nothing in Roman literature concerning music. Notwithstanding that Italy fell under the ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews
... stop is also now finding its way into organs more generally than heretofore. Resonating gongs giving, when skillfully used, effects closely resembling a harp have been introduced freely by the Aeolian Company in its house organs, and there seems no possible objection to such introduction. ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller |
