MUSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pitch Interval, Record Producer, Brass Instrument
Document Summary
Music: vital part of human society: provides entertainment and emotional release; accompanies activities, heard everywhere in modern life. Live performance: special event: experience affected by emotional state of both performer and audience. Sounds can be pleasant or unpleasant: humans are able to focus on specific sounds, we can ignore sound that do not interest us. Sound: begins as a result of vibrating object, transmitted through medium: air, causes our eardrums to vibrate. 4 main categories: pitch, dynamics, tone color, duration, pitch: highness or lowness of sound, determined by frequency of vibration. Slow vibration= low pitch generally, smaller vibrating objects= higher pitches. In music, definite pitch is a tone: tones have specific frequencies. Interval: distance between 2 tones: octave: doubling/ halving of frequencies, tones an octave apart seem to blend together. Solfege: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti (repeat: dynamics. Relative loudness of a sound: related to amplitude of vibration producing sound, changes in dynamics may be sudden or gradual.
