Progressive Evolution
Music has a natural instinct or desire to progress upwards in frequency. Should any tone be sounded this tone will immediately bring into manifestation its octaves rising above it which are all equal multiples of itself. This tone will also bring into existence many other equally arithmetically identifiable tones also being exactly relative to the original tone. These are sometimes referred to as partials or enharmonics. While the first series are generally termed the Harmonic Series the latter, while within the audible range, constitute the musical intervals from which are derived the various musical scales. These discrete intervals also reach into the far higher frequency ranges yet are not generally considered as musical intervals even though the relationships are maintained.
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