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The Twelve Keys Rising Seven Times

CHAPTER IX.
DIAGRAM VI.—THE TWELVE KEYS RISING SEVEN TIMES THROUGH SEVEN OCTAVES, AND FALLING BACK AGAIN.

"Painting has been called silent Poetry; Poetry, speaking Painting; and Architecture, frozen Harmony. The laws of each are convertible into the laws of every other."


IF we strike the twelve keys of harmonies in trinities, scales, and chords, as written in musical clef, beginning with the lowest C in the bass clef, this first development is linked into the lower series of seven octaves by the four lower tones sounded by C. If we follow with the twelve keys six times, at the seventh time they will gradually rise into the higher series. We obtain a glimpse of the beauty arising from musical notes in the Pendulograph. How exquisite would they be if they could be represented in their natural coloured tones! — as, for instance, the chord of the scale of C in red, yellow, and blue, with the six coloured tones rising from each, and harmoniously blended into each other.

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