. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. B A S B A S producing invifibly, and without human aid, the fweeteft chord in the whole fyflem of harmony. Here all the phenomena are reprefented and explained, of kindred ilrii-gs being caufed to "tremble and found merely b\ the tremors occafioned in the medium by the tone of a neighbouring firing or founding body. Here too the theory of tuning firings, not only by tenfion but by weights, is explained; from which proportions, doubtlefs, the lyrichord of Plenius was tuned by weig
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. B A S B A S producing invifibly, and without human aid, the fweeteft chord in the whole fyflem of harmony. Here all the phenomena are reprefented and explained, of kindred ilrii-gs being caufed to "tremble and found merely b\ the tremors occafioned in the medium by the tone of a neighbouring firing or founding body. Here too the theory of tuning firings, not only by tenfion but by weights, is explained; from which proportions, doubtlefs, the lyrichord of Plenius was tuned by weights in (lead of tenfion, fome fifty years ago. Having juftly reftored to" Gahleo the difcovery of the harmonic" proportions into which every tingle firing and founding body divides itfelf when caufed to found, it ieerns unneceihtrv further to explain this phenonuvn lure. \\ e ! therefore proceed to thefyilem built on this foundation by Rameau, under the title of Basse Fondomeitfa/t; concern- ing which, rot only the author, but the French nation, have gloried as much as if he had difcovered and conquered a new world in the celeflial regions of harmony. B A 5 E Fundamental:, or Fundamental Bafe, was firft formed into a fyltem by Rameau, and though the Italians the f»me thing by ballo principale, fo early as the time of Zarluio, it was not fo clearly explained; nor were its derivation or derivatives, from a phyfical experiment, then generally known in Italy. The natural harmony or common chord to every bafe, conihls of the third, filth, and eighth above the bafe; or their octaves, which the Germans call the triad : or rather the unifon, or any given found, with its third and fifth, con- flitute their triad, without the octave. If inltesdof the fun- damental or lowett found (which Rameau calls the gene- rator) the hate takes the third or fifth of that chord intiead of the lower found or principal bafe, the harmony is fa'd to be inverted ; and the lowcll part,
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