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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1It was at this time that Tartini made a very curious discovery, known as the phenomenon of the third sound, which created some sensation at the time, and has since given rise to numerous learned discourses, but does not appear to have led to any great practical result. Various memoirs or treatises were written by him, and that in which he develops the nature of the third sound is his "Tratto di Musica secondo la vera scienza dell' Armonia." In this, and others of his works, he appears much devoted to theory, and endeavours to place all his practical facts upon a thoroughly scientific basis. The effect known as the third sound consists in the sympathetic resonance of a third note when the two upper notes of a chord are played in perfect tune. "If you do not hear the bass," Tartini would say to his pupils, "the thirds or sixths which you are playing are not perfect in intonation."
3We will not stay here to analyse all the different theories that have been put forth to account for this singular phenomenon. It has arrested the attention more especially of Rameau, and J. B. Cartier, as well as many others. But this is perhaps the place to remark that Tar-
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