PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Vocal Tract, Vocal Folds, Speech Perception
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Music: the oldest instrument that was first discovered is the flute that is carved from vulture bones 30,000 years old, a famous greek scholar, pythagoras, was obsessed with numbers and that it was found in musical scales. Musical notes: music notes and processing sounds are associated with frequency another way to perceive it is pitch, the sounds of music extend across a frequency range from about 25 to 4200 hertz (hz) Octave the interval between two sound frequencies having a ratio of 2:1: the ratio of 2:1 is an example of just intonation in which frequencies of sounds are in simple ratios. In western music, the frequencies of notes are adjusted so that the combinations of notes will sound equally good: the set of notes or scale that western music uses is called equal temperament. In other words, it is related to octave and chroma is the greek word for colour .
