The Secret Seven(The musical sequence)

The seven pointed star contains a musical sequence. It involves the two consonant musical intervals between two sounds that are one octave apart - namely, the fifth and the third, as counted from the lower octave not. Counting clockwise in a circle, a e b f c g d a represent a cycle of fifths. counting along the lines of the star, ac, ce, eg, gb, bd and df represent a cycle of thirds. Counting along the points of the star, skipping every alternate point, a b c d e f g a represent the scale. - Secrets of high magic(Melville).

Extant genera in the family Alaudidae

 

  • Alaemon — hoopoe-larks (2 species)
  • Chersomanes — (2 species)
  • Ammomanopsis — Gray's lark
  • Certhilauda — short-clawed lark and long-billed larks (6 species)
  • Pinarocorys — (2 species)
  • Ramphocoris — Thick-billed lark
  • Ammomanes — (3 species)
  • Eremopterix — sparrow-larks (8 species)
  • Calendulauda — (8 species)
  • Heteromirafra — (2 species)
  • Mirafra — (24 species)
  • Lullula — Woodlark (and 7 extinct species)
  • Spizocorys — (7 species)
  • Alauda — skylarks (4 extant and 2 extinct species)
  • Galerida — (7 extant and 2 extinct species)
  • Eremophila — horned larks (2 extant and 1 extinct species)
  • Calandrella — (6 extant and 1 extinct species)
  • Melanocorypha — (5 extant and 3 extinct species)
  • Chersophilus — Dupont's lark
  • Eremalauda — Dunn's lark
  • Alaudala — (5 species)

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
~ Noam Chomsky

The quote "good artist's borrow, great artists steal" is misquoted and wrongly attributed to Stravinsky as well as Picasso. The actual quote can be traced back to T.S Elliot and is "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”. Quite a different sentiment.