Intervals and Pitch
... hear the distance from 110 Hz to 220 Hz as being the same as the distance from 440 Hz to 880 Hz. Therefore, we use the system of pitch to measure frequency in a way that corresponds to human perception. Twelve units of pitch equals one octave. There are two ways to notate pitch: either using a note ...
... hear the distance from 110 Hz to 220 Hz as being the same as the distance from 440 Hz to 880 Hz. Therefore, we use the system of pitch to measure frequency in a way that corresponds to human perception. Twelve units of pitch equals one octave. There are two ways to notate pitch: either using a note ...
On Serial Music
... second bar is important enough to be referred to as The Tristan Chord. The dilemma produced by this piece was then: 'where does music go from here?' Composers, concerned that music using traditional scales and harmony had been fully exploited, were left with some choices. They could break the rules ...
... second bar is important enough to be referred to as The Tristan Chord. The dilemma produced by this piece was then: 'where does music go from here?' Composers, concerned that music using traditional scales and harmony had been fully exploited, were left with some choices. They could break the rules ...
Musical Terms - Rogers State University
... • System of organizing pitches • Give cohesion to a piece of music • Just a few are the major, minor, modal, and pentatonic scales. • In non-Western cultures, scales, patterns or even certain notes may associated with extra musical ideas from nature or religion. ...
... • System of organizing pitches • Give cohesion to a piece of music • Just a few are the major, minor, modal, and pentatonic scales. • In non-Western cultures, scales, patterns or even certain notes may associated with extra musical ideas from nature or religion. ...
ATTAINMENT TARGET
... a) play Bb major scale 1 octave using either side or front Bb keys. b) Dorian on D, Lydian on D (2 octaves) c) Mixolydian on C (2 octaves) ...
... a) play Bb major scale 1 octave using either side or front Bb keys. b) Dorian on D, Lydian on D (2 octaves) c) Mixolydian on C (2 octaves) ...
Grade 9 Music Exam Review
... Grand staff – treble staff and bass staff attached by a brace Bar (measure) – a unit of division of the staff based on the time signature. Divided by vertical lines called bar lines Ledger line (how do we name them) – lines that extend the staff both above an below. Accidental – sharps, flats or nat ...
... Grand staff – treble staff and bass staff attached by a brace Bar (measure) – a unit of division of the staff based on the time signature. Divided by vertical lines called bar lines Ledger line (how do we name them) – lines that extend the staff both above an below. Accidental – sharps, flats or nat ...
(Answers and Exam Piece).
... Grand staff – treble staff and bass staff attached by a brace Bar (measure) – a unit of division of the staff based on the time signature. Divided by vertical lines called bar lines Ledger line (how do we name them) – lines that extend the staff both above an below. Accidental – sharps, flats or nat ...
... Grand staff – treble staff and bass staff attached by a brace Bar (measure) – a unit of division of the staff based on the time signature. Divided by vertical lines called bar lines Ledger line (how do we name them) – lines that extend the staff both above an below. Accidental – sharps, flats or nat ...
Music Theory IV Trythall NYU Theory IV vocabulary
... SUPER SET: CHROMATIC SCALE COLLECTION (or SET): DIATONIC SCALE SUBSET: PENTATONIC SCALE ...
... SUPER SET: CHROMATIC SCALE COLLECTION (or SET): DIATONIC SCALE SUBSET: PENTATONIC SCALE ...
Aspects of contemporary technique
... Aspects of contemporary technique (with comments about Cage, Feldman, Scelsi and Babbitt) The twentieth century presents string players with two sets of (somewhat related) technical problems: the variety of timbral and dynamic demands made upon the bow arm; and the intervallic demands made upon our ...
... Aspects of contemporary technique (with comments about Cage, Feldman, Scelsi and Babbitt) The twentieth century presents string players with two sets of (somewhat related) technical problems: the variety of timbral and dynamic demands made upon the bow arm; and the intervallic demands made upon our ...
FIGURED BASS Figured bass symbols indicate intervals above the
... 7. Two figures arranged horizontally under one bass note indicate movement in the same voice above the given bass note. For example, in the following, the note an octave above the bass note is to move to the note a seventh above the bass. A dash under a movement indicates that voice does not move. T ...
... 7. Two figures arranged horizontally under one bass note indicate movement in the same voice above the given bass note. For example, in the following, the note an octave above the bass note is to move to the note a seventh above the bass. A dash under a movement indicates that voice does not move. T ...
music questions section i
... 18. What happens when you halve the length of the string (220Hz)? a. Naturally vibrates twice as fast 19. What is created from the naturally sped up chord? a. Becomes an octave 20. What is equal temperament? a. Generating the twelve pitches by dividing the octave 21. In what kind of a world do pitch ...
... 18. What happens when you halve the length of the string (220Hz)? a. Naturally vibrates twice as fast 19. What is created from the naturally sped up chord? a. Becomes an octave 20. What is equal temperament? a. Generating the twelve pitches by dividing the octave 21. In what kind of a world do pitch ...
Music Notes Beginners Class 1 :
... Notes from Chitra Veena Ravi Kiran's book (with some additions): Musical Phrases: It is important to first practice karvai (long notes: see the sarali varisai class) before the varishais. Gradually simple combinations of notes can be tried. Teachers can introduce small musical phrases like GM , - GM ...
... Notes from Chitra Veena Ravi Kiran's book (with some additions): Musical Phrases: It is important to first practice karvai (long notes: see the sarali varisai class) before the varishais. Gradually simple combinations of notes can be tried. Teachers can introduce small musical phrases like GM , - GM ...
International Baccalaureate Music and Advanced Placement Music
... railroads. This was all made possible by the Industrial Revolution, which allowed a series of invention, including the cast iron frame for the piano, an instrument now found in most homes (upper and middle classes). The culture of the 18th century was under the patronage of an aristocracy for whom t ...
... railroads. This was all made possible by the Industrial Revolution, which allowed a series of invention, including the cast iron frame for the piano, an instrument now found in most homes (upper and middle classes). The culture of the 18th century was under the patronage of an aristocracy for whom t ...
Trimbat by Ida Bagus Made Widnyana
... (Actually, considering that the instruments were paired and that jegogan pairs often sound as far as a 1/4 (equally tempered) step or more apart, Widnyana had access to 22 pitches per octave. He chose to maintain, however, the traditional Balinese practice of always playing paired pitches together ...
... (Actually, considering that the instruments were paired and that jegogan pairs often sound as far as a 1/4 (equally tempered) step or more apart, Widnyana had access to 22 pitches per octave. He chose to maintain, however, the traditional Balinese practice of always playing paired pitches together ...
Troublesome T`s of Tuning
... dynamic interpretation, is based upon periodic trends. The present system of equaltemperament has gained wide acceptance as a musical pitch standard only recently. Although piano tuners knew of the concept of equal temperament as early as the late Renaissance period, J.S. Bach preferred an extended ...
... dynamic interpretation, is based upon periodic trends. The present system of equaltemperament has gained wide acceptance as a musical pitch standard only recently. Although piano tuners knew of the concept of equal temperament as early as the late Renaissance period, J.S. Bach preferred an extended ...
File - Oak Bay Band
... An interval is the distance between two pitches. In Theory Package IA we looked at whole tones and semitones; these are examples of the smallest distance between two pitches or smaller intervals. In Theory Package IB, you learned how to identify all major and perfect intervals as they are written an ...
... An interval is the distance between two pitches. In Theory Package IA we looked at whole tones and semitones; these are examples of the smallest distance between two pitches or smaller intervals. In Theory Package IB, you learned how to identify all major and perfect intervals as they are written an ...
AP-Music-Theory-Study-Guide
... • Neighboring chord- formed by 2-3 neighbor notes occurring at the sam time in similar motion to make a new chord • Realization- structure of figured bass • Retrogression- series of chords that weakens a tonality • Secondary dominant- V or V7 of a major or minor triad, to spell it: o Find the root o ...
... • Neighboring chord- formed by 2-3 neighbor notes occurring at the sam time in similar motion to make a new chord • Realization- structure of figured bass • Retrogression- series of chords that weakens a tonality • Secondary dominant- V or V7 of a major or minor triad, to spell it: o Find the root o ...
Music Theory
... Musical Terms A great many musical terms are in Italian. It shouldn't be surprising that so many musical terms are Italian, since many of the most important early composers in the renaissance period were Italian, and that period is when numerous musical indications were used extensively for the f ...
... Musical Terms A great many musical terms are in Italian. It shouldn't be surprising that so many musical terms are Italian, since many of the most important early composers in the renaissance period were Italian, and that period is when numerous musical indications were used extensively for the f ...
Scales in Music
... between a pitch and the next pitch with the same note-name. For example, 220 Hz corresponds to the note A, and 440 Hz is the next frequency that corresponds to A; so the interval between 220 Hz and 440 Hz is one octave. Similarly, the interval between 440 Hz and 880 Hz is one octave. Notice carefull ...
... between a pitch and the next pitch with the same note-name. For example, 220 Hz corresponds to the note A, and 440 Hz is the next frequency that corresponds to A; so the interval between 220 Hz and 440 Hz is one octave. Similarly, the interval between 440 Hz and 880 Hz is one octave. Notice carefull ...
Physics of Music
... The analysis of both language and music in a scientific sense therefore happened after they were initially used and created. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras noticed that when he ‘stopped’ a string vibrating at certain points, the notes produced sounded pleasing to the ear. The ratio between th ...
... The analysis of both language and music in a scientific sense therefore happened after they were initially used and created. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras noticed that when he ‘stopped’ a string vibrating at certain points, the notes produced sounded pleasing to the ear. The ratio between th ...
Intonation Variables in the Performance of Twelve
... has already been noted that a melodic third or sixth does not form a satisfactory double-stop interval; it must be adjusted by a syntonic comma to sound in tune. If a note is adjusted instead by a Pythagorean comma, the effect will be practically the same. For example, as we have seen, E 330 is too ...
... has already been noted that a melodic third or sixth does not form a satisfactory double-stop interval; it must be adjusted by a syntonic comma to sound in tune. If a note is adjusted instead by a Pythagorean comma, the effect will be practically the same. For example, as we have seen, E 330 is too ...
Der Kranke Mond - Pierrot Lunaire Schoenberg
... The Romantic style of the 19th Century had always been about the heightened expression of emotions. In the early 20th Century, Austrian composers like Arnold Schoenberg and his follower Anton Berg sought to take this a stage further by describing extreme, often nightmarish feelings. At the climax of ...
... The Romantic style of the 19th Century had always been about the heightened expression of emotions. In the early 20th Century, Austrian composers like Arnold Schoenberg and his follower Anton Berg sought to take this a stage further by describing extreme, often nightmarish feelings. At the climax of ...
File - Woodland Middle School Music
... Dynamics (volume) Melody (pitch – up or down, high or low) Harmony (what sounds good with the melody?) Tone color (what instrument, what register) Texture (one voice, lots of voices, instruments? thick or thin) Form (How is the piece set up)? Beat Vs. Rhythm Beat: Steady and regular ...
... Dynamics (volume) Melody (pitch – up or down, high or low) Harmony (what sounds good with the melody?) Tone color (what instrument, what register) Texture (one voice, lots of voices, instruments? thick or thin) Form (How is the piece set up)? Beat Vs. Rhythm Beat: Steady and regular ...
16 באוקטובר, 2005
... 3. Adding an option of changing the scale of a musical sheet produced by the system. Background: Western music includes sounds which defer from each other by at least semitone. This gives rise to 12 basic different sounds, as seen here: ...
... 3. Adding an option of changing the scale of a musical sheet produced by the system. Background: Western music includes sounds which defer from each other by at least semitone. This gives rise to 12 basic different sounds, as seen here: ...
ATTAINMENT TARGET
... b) play eighth notes (quavers) & the equivalent rests c) play in 3/4 & 4/4 time ...
... b) play eighth notes (quavers) & the equivalent rests c) play in 3/4 & 4/4 time ...
Microtonal music
Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, which are also called ""microintervals"". It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.