PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Vocal Tract, Vocal Folds, Absolute Pitch
Document Summary
Musical notes and spoken words are nothing more than very familiar, complex sounds. Music and speech can be distinguished from most other environmental sounds: the depth and breadth of human communication by music and language has no rival in the acoustic world. Pythagoras was convinced that the musical intervals he found most pleasing should provide the greatest insights not only to mathematics, but to the universe as a whole. Pitch: the psychological aspect of sound related mainly to perceived frequency: musical pitch is one of the characteristics of musical notes, the sounds that constitute melodies, octave: the interval between two sound frequencies having a ratio of 2:1. When one of two periodic sounds is double the frequency of the other, those two sounds are one octave apart. Equal temperament: the set of notes (scale) used commonly: musical pitch has two dimensions. Tone height: a sound quality corresponding to the level of pitch; monotonically related to frequency.
