Definition of Partial tone

1. Noun. A harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency.

Exact synonyms: Overtone, Partial
Generic synonyms: Harmonic

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Literary usage of Partial tone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"The first of these constituents is the prime partial tone of the compound, ... The number which shows the arder of any partial tone in the series shows how ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"It should be observed that the first over-tone is the second partial tone, the second over-tone the third partial, and In general that the same tone ..."

3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"The sum of the " partial-tone " discovery is, then, that every tone-quality is due to the presence of certain specified " partial tonos," and their relative ..."

4. A Course in Experimental Psychology by Edmund Clark Sanford (1908)
"The Jirst over-tone is thus the second partial tone, the second over-tone ... same tone receives as a partial tone a number one higher than as an over-tone. ..."

5. The Organ of the Twentieth Century: A Manual on All Matters Relating to the by George Ashdown Audsley (1919)
"The Second Upper partial tone is that generated by three times the number of vibrations required to produce the prime tone. Thus, if the prime tone is CC, ..."

6. Organ-stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction by George Ashdown Audsley (1921)
"The fifth partial tone is thus proportionately stronger than the rather weak third partial on these pipes, and the quality of tone becomes peculiarly bright ..."

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