RTV-3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Rise Time, Homophony
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Music is often used to enhance hat is happening on screen. Music can be translated into vectors which describe a line, a direction, a movement. Sound has five distinct attributes that contribute to the overall feeling of a musical comp. The relative highness or lowness of a sound. The combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume. The timbre of a tone tells you if it is a trumpet or a violin. The length of a sound, or how long we perceive it to be. Also known as dynamics, the strength of a pitch. How quickly a sound reaches its loudest point. Fast attack: sound gets loud quickly, rise time is short. Slow attack: sound takes a while to reach the desired loudness; the rise time is slow. The whole process from initial attack to final decay is called the sound envelope.