Pitch Notation In Western music notation‚ we name musical tones using the first seven letters of the alphabet: A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ F‚ G. This musical alphabet repeats endlessly. We “count” up or down in the series by reciting its letters forward or backward. To count up beyond G‚ start over with A. What is pitch? A pitch is a tone sounding in a particular octave. What is 8 above C? The answer is another C. In this seven-name system‚ each letter name reappears every eighth position. Tones eight
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TECHNIQUES VIBRATO G Tıons D vıBra HOW VIBRATO CAN SHAKE UP YOUR MUSIC By Jon Chappell V D RU M M O N D : L I S A TA N N ER ibrato is one of the most expressive techniques a musician can use. Playing notes loudly and softly or varying the tempo may create a sense of drama‚ but if you really want to make a long note shimmer—and send shivers down the spines of your listeners—just the right bit of vibrato can steal the show. The term vibrato comes from the Italian word for “vibrate‚” but
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Garry Morales Urbina Book Report 13 April 2012 Casals and the Art of the Interpretation – David Blum David Blum (Los Angeles CA‚ 1935) wrote this book to show how a great master as Casals thought about the materialization of emotions to express what music needs to. Moreover‚ he provides fundamental concepts which Casals sometimes called “law of music” or “laws of nature” – concepts which he considered to be essential elements of meaningful interpretation and applicable to all forms of musical
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History of WRITING The history of writing is primarily the development of expressing language by letters or other marks and also the study and description of these developments. One of the earliest forms of written expression is cuneiform. Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the associated spoken language to comprehend the text. By contrast
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Thinking Questions 1. Yes‚ I agree that music is an universal language because no matter what diverse you come from music come from the heart. Many people use music to express their emotions and feelings without having to say a word. 2. Musical notations are important because it help musicians to identify the sound level that they are meant to be playing at. Benefits musicians and others receive from being able to write down and note aspects of a musical piece is that it help set the mood of the
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• Binary arithmetic • Binary codes • Error detecting & error correcting codes • Hamming codes Switching Theory and Logic Design HISTORY OF THE NUMERAL SYSTEMS: A numeral system (or system of numeration) is a linguistic system and mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set by symbols in a consistent manner. For example‚ It allows the numeral "11" to be interpreted as the binary numeral for three‚ the decimal numeral for eleven‚ or other numbers in different bases. Ideally‚ a
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technique to move his paper against and within the burnt trees; he is part of the physical structure of it‚ and also within the dimension of the sound of it. He has been intrigued by how often his drawings do in fact have the appearance of musical notations. The black lines and rhythmic dots made by hitting and dragging the paper against re-bounding twigs and branches often look like a musical score. Birds are rare and endangered. And in the middle of the painting‚ John Wolseley had painted another
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Music Visualization in computer generated software N. R. The German University in Cairo‚ Egypt Nissmah Roshdy Abstract—This paper summarizes the history of music visualization in computer software and recent work from artists today that present the variety of concepts used in the field. I. INTRODUCTION the frequency of a specific amount of audio data‚ and then the programmer assigns certain graphical elements to be displayed repeatedly‚ varying with the amplification of the sound
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form. 5. What is form in music? Critical Thinking Questions 1. Music has sometimes been referred to as a “universal language.” Why has this description been applied to music? Do you agree or disagree with this assessment? Why? 2. Why is musical notation important? What benefits do musicians and others receive from being able to write down and note aspects of a musical piece? 3. In the first part of the unit‚ we discussed how music is everywhere in society. What are some of the ways that we use
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Off-beat – placing an accent between beats Polyrhythm – two or more different rhythms being played at the same time. Swing – a type of rhythm usually found in Jazz where quavers are played as a crotchet and quaver triplet. MELODY Pitch notation – treble‚ bass‚ alto clef Step (conjunct) – moving to the next note above or below Leap (disjunct) – moving to a note two or more steps above or below Range – the distance between the lowest and highest note of a melody (wide / narrow) Octave
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