54 THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



indicate cadence or tend by a wave-line which resolves 

 into repose or end as shown by a straight line : — 



-Bepose 

 Cadence 



The first or sliding moment in pitching a tone is 

 cadence, unstable equilibrium, relative harmony, tend ; 

 in it the entire cadence-thread of harmony is potentially 

 present. The second or arriving moment is repose, 

 stable equilibrium, perfect harmony, end; in it the 

 entire repose-thread of harmony is potentially present. 



Feeling thus resolves wavering into unwavering 

 pitch, unstable into stable equilibrium, relative har- 

 mony into perfect harmony, apparent chaos into per- 

 fect order and unity, a light accent into a heavy accent, 

 cadence into repose, aspiration into attainment, tend 

 into end, latent feeling of dissonance into consonance. 



This heavy accent of rhythm I have already named 

 the efficient accent of tone-genesis, that is, of the genesis 

 of harmony. This end of tend was the genesis of 

 music's first tone, the birth of music itself, of melody. 

 This first tone was not only the first harmony, but was 

 the first regnant harmony generated by the efficient 

 accent. This first harmony is the genus consonance, 

 our Major Tonic-harmony. 



The power to place a tone in the voice and to express 

 exact pitch was acquired through the evolutionary 

 process of resolution above described. In the first 

 crude attempts at pitch the entire process of sliding 

 and arriving is intoned. But when the power to ex- 



