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Music Lecture
Test 1
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Music
Undergraduate 1
02/02/2009

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Music
Definition
an art based on the organization of sounds in time
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Four main properties of musical sounds
Definition
pitch, dynamics, tone color, and duration(length of time a musical sound lasts)
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Pitch
Definition
relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound
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Pitch of a sound is decided by the frequency(speed) of its vibrations
Definition
measured in cycles per second. The faster the vibrations the higher the pitch; the slower the lower the pitch
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pitch and size of objects
Definition
smaller objects vibrate faster and have higher pitches: thus plucking a short string produces a higher pitch than plucking a long string
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Tone
Definition
a sound that has a definite pitch
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Interval
Definition
Two tones will sound different when they have different pitches. The distance in pitch between any two tones
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Octave
Definition
When tones are separated by the interval called an octave they sound very much alike
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Ratio of octaves
Definition
2:1 if say one is 440 cycles per second then the see tone an octave higher would be 880 cycles per second
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