MUSC107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tonality, Alternating Current, Sound Pressure
17 Feb 2016
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The highness or lowness of a sound, measured in cycles per second or hertz. Human range of hearing is normally 20 to 20,000 hertz. Range of piano is approximately 27. 5 hz to 4186 hz. Women generally hear a wide range than men (particular higher) Younger people also have wider hearing range than older people. Written by positioning of notes on a staff, higher or lower. G cleff or trable cleff, are for higher frequencies. Both the g cleff/trable cleff and the bass is called the grand staff used in pianos and for coral music: duration. Length of a musical sound affects what we call rhythm which is represented by different types of notes (duration) and rests on a staff: timbre. Quality of sound : the characteristics sound of a particular instrument caused by: 1. Divisions of instruments into categories relative to sound production. Based on latin suffix phones which means to sound: 1.
