MUSC 2380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Inverted Pendulum, Piano
16 May 2016
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Music has many aspects and all of these aspects have to do with sound and time. Sound is regarded in the way that we perceive it: as a sensation through our ears, created by the vibration of airwaves. We hear a range of 20-20,000 vibrations (cycles hz) per second. We define music more by how we behave toward the sound than what the sound actually is. By nose we generally mean sound that is not communicating anything and is just simply annoying. However, in more technical terms, noise is known as a sound that has no pitch. By pitch, we are talking about the frequency of vibrations 440/sec = note a or. There are sounds that contain many pitches resulting in us not being able to distinguish a single pitch. Most instruments (cymbals, triangles, drums, foot and hand tapping) are not pitched. We speak of pitches as being higher or lower.
