The fact is that today both Church and State ceremony inherits its musical tradition from the priestly ritual and military pomp of the early time-frame. Sacred ritual has always been linked to a transcendent realm and many depictions of musical instruments are of double instruments, being perceivably one octave apart. This is very significant when considering the psycho-acoustic properties of sound. The interval shift of a perfect octave is exactly one-half or double the frequency. Occasionally, however, strange coustic phenomena occur when the octave is sounded imperfectly.
Resonance is the vibration set up by contact with an object sympathetic to the frequency.
For example, a tuning fork sounds far stronger if it is touching a table with the energy transferred more powerfully through the air. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced without permission.