MUS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mezzo Forte, Musical Note, Harpsichord
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At least 3 basic aspects to any musical note or tone that we hear: pitch, dynamics, timbre or tone color, pitch. * refers to the rate of vibration of sound: *difference in vibration rates between any 2 pitches is referred to as an interval. *when one plays 2 pitches where one pitch is vibrating exactly twice as fast as the other, this is called is called an octave. *the interval that is the lowest and highest pitch that a musical work has is sometimes called the range of the piece: dynamics. * how loud or soft a tone or pitch is. * accent: dynamic effect when a pitch is played loudly at the start and then immediately gets soft. * is the reason we can distinguish different instruments or vocals is because of the differences in timbre. Musical instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboard, electronic. *stringed instruments produce pitches through the use of some kind of wire string.
