Ramsay
The effects of different positions of chords. The first position is clear and solid; the second is light and pretty. The notes which have the most varied effect in a stream of harmony are the upper and under notes, the edges of the stream; the two outlines determine the effect:-

[Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 84]

When the chords follow each other placed in such a way as to bring the upper note of the one as near the upper note of the next as it can be, the upper surface of this stream of harmony is the melodic scale and the harmony is the bottom and the body of the stream.

[Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 88]

See Also

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10.03 - Sympathetic Streams
13.11 - Triple Currents and Streams
electric stream
etheric sympathetic stream
harmony
Mind as Flow or Stream
negative sympathetic polar stream
polar stream
positive electric stream
rotating stream
stream
streams of coincidence
sympathetic etheric stream
sympathetic negative polar stream
Sympathetic Streams
sympathetic terrestrial streams
sympathetic triple stream
Table 15.02 - Triune Polar Streams
three sympathetic streams
triune streams
triune sympathetic celestial stream
velocity of rotating etheric stream
vibratory sympathetic stream