hieratic scale

Examples of hieratic scale in the following topics:

• Sculpture in Mesopotamia

  • Each register features hieratic scale, in which the queen (upper register) and the king (lower register) are larger than their subjects.
  • Like the cylinder seal found in Queen Puabi's tomb, the figures in the Tell Asmar Hoard show hieratic scale.
  • In typical hieratic fashion, Naram Sin appears larger than his soldiers and his enemies.
  • Each figure is set apart from his or her subjects through hieratic scale.

• Sculpture of the Early Dynastic Period

  • The small-scale sculptures of the Early Dynastic Period in ancient Egypt provide insight into the foundations of Egyptian customs and the unification of the country.
  • The model is small scale (8.2 cm high), was fired at a low temperature, and was originally painted.
  • As in the art of many cultures of ancient times, the palette contains hieratic scale, in which Narmer is the largest figure.

• Manuscript Printing

  • The scale of the figures is hieratic; The Virgin and Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist tower over the donor and his wife, who are themselves slightly larger than the faithful sheltered by the Virgin's robe.
  • The scale of the figures is hieratic; The Virgin and Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist tower over the donor and his wife, who are themselves slightly larger than the faithful sheltered by the Virgin's robe.

• Carolingian Metalwork in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Metalwork subjects were often narrative religious scenes in vertical sections, largely derived from Late Antique paintings and carvings, as were those with more hieratic images derived from consular diptychs and other imperial art, such as the front and back covers of the Lorsch Gospels.
  • Under Charlemagne, there was a revival of large-scale bronze casting in imitation of Roman designs, although metalwork in gold continued to develop.

• Sculpture of the Early Christian Church

  • The subjects were often narrative religious scenes in vertical sections, largely derived from Late Antique paintings and carvings, as were those with more hieratic images derived from consular diptychs and other imperial art.
  • Charlemagne revived large-scale bronze casting when he created a foundry at Aachen which cast the doors for his palace chapel, in imitation of Roman designs.

• Other Scales

  • Some, like pentatonic and octatonic scales, have fewer or more notes per octave, but many have seven tones, just as a major scale does.
  • For example, one class of scales that intrigues some composers is symmetrical scales.
  • The chromatic scale and whole tone scales fall into this category, but other symmetrical scales can also be constructed.
  • Often the name of a scale simply reflects what it sounds like to the person using it, and the same name may be applied to different scales, or different names to the same scale.
  • Like chromatic and whole tone scales, a diminished scale is "symmetrical".

• The Blues Scale

  • Blues scales are closely related to pentatonic scales.
  • (Some versions are pentatonic. ) Rearrange the pentatonic scale in Figure 4.68 above so that it begins on the C, and add an F sharp in between the F and G, and you have a commonly used version of the blues scale.
  • Listen to this blues scale: http://cnx.org/content/m11636/latest/BlueScale.mid.

• Economies and Diseconomies of Scale

  • In economics, returns to scale describes what happens when the scale of production increases over the long run when all input levels are variable (chosen by the firm).
  • There are three stages in the returns to scale: increasing returns to scale (IRS), constant returns to scale (CRS), and diminishing returns to scale (DRS).
  • Returns to scale vary between industries, but typically a firm will have increasing returns to scale at low levels of production, decreasing returns to scale at high levels of production, and constant returns to scale at some point in the middle .
  • This graph shows that as the output (production) increases, long run average total cost curve decreases in economies of scale, constant in constant returns to scale, and increases in diseconomies of scale.
  • Identify the three types of returns to scale and describe how they occur

• Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

  • All of the scales above are natural minor scales.
  • The harmonic minor scale raises the seventh note of the scale by one half step, whether you are going up or down the scale.
  • (Please see Beginning Harmonic Analysis for more about this. ) In the melodic minor scale, the sixth and seventh notes of the scale are each raised by one half step when going up the scale, but return to the natural minor when going down the scale.
  • Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.23 as an ascending harmonic minor scale.
  • Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.23 as an ascending and descending melodic minor scale.

• Pentatonic Scales

  • Listen to the black key pentatonic scale.
  • Like other scales, this pentatonic scale is transposable; you can move the entire scale up or down by a half step or a major third or any interval you like.
  • For more on patterns of intervals within scales, see Major Scales and Minor Scales. ) Now listen to a transposed pentatonic scale: http://cnx.org/content/m11636/latest/pentatonic2.mid.
  • Any scale that uses only five notes within one octave is a pentatonic scale.
  • You may use more than one octave of each scale, but use only one scale for each piece.