The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

barely any effect in changing the sound.We thus conclude that this find probably does not belong among trumpetlike instruments. ...

instrument can be closed with the hand or fingers,and thus at least two different tones can be produced.The upper and lower ends ...

the thickness of the bone could be fairly large (4mm).With a thinner cut edge (e.g.,bone wall around 2mm thick),blowing was easi ...

255 New Perspectives on the Beginnings of Music Figure 15.8 Producing sound in the bone flute as a rim-blown flute. Figure 15.9 ...

break.The fanlike distal widening at the metaphysis forms a kind of natural mouthpiece and thus facilitates the embouchure.Such ...

is provided by the sharp edge of the hollowed-out hole on which we blow, and the instrument is thus held crosswise to the mouth ...

somewhere between the cited limits and is difficult to determine clearly, since it also depends on the temperature and playabili ...

of basic intonation of individual flutes can be seen in figure 15.10,and the largest deviation achieves an interval of almost a ...

changing the sound.However,it could be combined successfully with partial or complete closure of the end of the flute. The most ...

and various embouchures and strengths of blowing.With the full notes in the center,we indicated our assessment of the tone that ...

combination,we obtain fairly varied and apparently disorganized results. The search for possible scales of the flute was not our ...

Finally,the size of individual holes has a great influence on changing pitch.Holes of smaller diameter have less of an effect an ...

playing it,all of which decisively influence its tonal possibilities.Even if we were to know all this (as we assumed with our re ...

Notes 1.We will limit ourselves in the rest of the text to the European Paleolithic,which,because of a long tradition of archeol ...

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Steven Brown Abstract Analysis of the phrase structure and phonological properties of musical and lin- guistic utterances sugges ...