But in order to discover the relative frequency of the different
chords on _every_ account, the results of the two foregoing
operations must be united. Now, as the numbers in the two columns
of Table II. at a medium, are as 3 : 1, and those in Table III.
are in the same ratio, although the factors are to each other
in only the simple ratio of the relative frequency of the two
modes, yet their products will, at a medium, be in the _duplicate_
ratio of that frequency. Hence, to render the two sets of results
homologous, so that those which correspond to the same interval may
be properly added, to express the general chance of occurrence for
that interval in all the major and minor keys in which it is found,
this duplicate ratio must be reduced to a simple one, either by
dividing the first, or by multiplying the last series of results,
by 3. We will do the latter, as it will give the ratios in the
largest, and, of course, the most accurate terms. Then adding those
results in each which belong to the same interval, and cutting off
the three right hand figures, (expressing in the nearest small
fractions those results which are under 1000) which will leave a
set of ratios abundantly accurate for every purpose; the numbers
constituting the final solution of the problem will stand as
follows:
TABLE IV.
+--------+----------+-----------+---------+
| | Vths and | IIIds and | 3ds and |
| Bases. | 4ths. | 6ths. | VIths. |
+--------+----------+-----------+---------+
|F♯ | 67 | 29 | 1072 |
|F | 639 | 924 | 66 |
|E♯ | ---- | ---- | 12 |
|E | 548 | 323 | 1151 |
|E♭ | 265 | 363 | ½ |
|D♯ | ⅓ | ½ | 144 |
|D | 1166 | 943 | 569 |
|D♭ | 1 | 6 | ---- |
|C♯ | 25 | 12 | 581 |
|C | 816 | 1131 | 180 |
|B♯ | ---- | ---- | 4 |
|B | 221 | 135 | 1161 |
|B♭ | 418 | 654 | 5 |
|A♯ | ---- | ---- | 29 |
|A | 870 | 568 | 1085 |
|A♭ | 52 | 78 | ⅕ |
|G♯ | 5 | 4 | 365 |
|G | 1207 | 1197 | 567 |
|F♯♯ | ---- | ---- | ¼ |
|G♭ | ---- | ½ | ---- |
+--------+----------+-----------+---------+
NOTE. In this table, as well as the last, the Vths, IIIds, and
3ds are to be taken _above_, and the 4ths, 6ths, and VIths, their
complements to the octave, _below_ the corresponding degrees in
the first column. And, in general, whenever the Vths, IIIds, and
3ds are hereafter treated as different classes of concords, each
will be understood to include its complement to the octave and its
compounds with octaves.
_Scholium._
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