VALUE, in music. Sounds are either compara-
tively high or low, long or short. In either of these
cases they may be said to have a value. In the first
their value is relative to harmony, in the last to rhythm-
us. The value of any particular sound, considered as
high or low, is the degree in which it is placed with
relation to any other sound above or beneath it, ascer-
tained by comparison.