MUSC107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tonality, Big Bill Broonzy, Minor Scale
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The highness or lowness of a sound. Measured in cycles per second or hertz. Human range of hearing nominally 20 to 20000 hz. Women and younger people generally hear a wider range. Written by positioning of notes on a staff: treble clef (higher, bass clef (lower) An infrasound is a low frequency sound that generates psychological effects that can actually cause hallucinations: duration. Length of a musical sound affects what we call rhythm. Represented by different types of notes and rests on a staff: rests symbolize the time between each note on a staff. Whole, half, quarter, etc. notes are marked in different ways. A tempo is a rate of speed: what you use to time clocks for example, timbre. 5 line staff (cid:494)eight note(cid:495: the doubling of frequency (octave) happens at the. Division of instruments into categories relative to sound production: method of tone production (tone envelope)
