Difference Between a "Note" & "Tone" In Britain, the word "note" can mean a
written symbol as well as a sound. Americans separate these meanings and use
the word "note" for a written note, and "tone" for the sound.
"Tone" can also mean the quality of a sound, for example, its brightness or
its dullness (as in the tone control on a tape player or radio).
Regards,
Ganesh
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Ganesh Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> What is a "Note" ?? *The word "note" has two distinct meanings in its
> British usage (see alternative names):*
>
> * 1.* *A single sound (one that is heard)*
> * 2.* *A single notated symbol for a sound (one that is written)*
>
> *Although these are physically two different things, they have a
> one-to-one relationship. My definition of a note is a single pitch which is
> heard for a certain amount of time:*
>
>
> - *Traditional music notation is structured around this definition of a
> note.*
>
>
> - *Music consists of many notes*
>
> ~ *Sometimes notes come after each other in time (sequentially, e.g. in a
> sung melody).
>
> *
> ~ *At other times many notes are heard at once; this is usually because
> many instruments or voices are each playing or singing a different part.*
>
> ~ *When music is written down, each individual note is individually
> represented, both those which are heard sequentially, and those which are
> heard all at once.*
>
> ~ *Each individually represented note has a single frequency or pitch and
> lasts for a certain amount of time.*
>
> ~ *During the length of a note, whether it be short or long, it may change
> its loudness, or sometimes even its quality (or tone), but it is still
> considered to be the same note.*
>
> ~ *It follows that a single note in a single part is played or sung by
> only one type of instrument or voice.*
>
> Regards,
> Ganesh
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Ganesh Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Frequency & Pitch..Contd...
>>
>> - ***A note is produced by a very rapid, regular pulsing.*
>>
>> *If you take a drum sound with a beat every second*
>> *Then speed it up to 512 times per second*
>> *You will perceive it as a note of 512Hz, as in the example above*
>>
>> - *There are a lot of examples in real life that you will already be
>> familiar with:*
>>
>> *The high-pitched whine of a mosquito is caused by the wings beating at
>> over 1000 times a second*
>> *
>> **The sound of a propeller starting up, at first a slow thump, which
>> turns into a low noise, and finally into a whine**
>>
>> The note produced by a razor or a vacuum cleaner is caused by the regular
>> movement of a blade or motor.**
>>
>> The best example is probably a electronic metronome, which uses the same
>> oscillating circuit to produce a beat as to produce a tuning note. A tuning
>> note is produced by getting the circuit to oscillate at 440Hz.
>>
>> *
>> Regards,
>> Ganesh
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Ganesh Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Frequency or pitch
>>>
>>> - *Pitch is a musical term with a meaning which is very close to the
>>> meaning of the scientific term frequency*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *The scientific term frequency is slightly more specific than the
>>> normal use of the word frequency, which means simply "how often something
>>> happens".*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *It means the number of times an event occurs in a period of time.*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *Hertz (abbreviated to Hz), is the scientific unit for the number
>>> of times an event happens in one second.*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *For example, an electric current which alternates its direction 50
>>> times each second is referred to as 50Hz*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *A computer with a clock tick 90 million times a second is called a
>>> 90MHz machine ("M" being short for the prefix "Mega" meaning a million)
>>> *
>>>
>>>
>>> - *H. R. Hertz was a physicist in the 19th Century (1857-1894)*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *A note (in my definition) has one, and only one, pitch.*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *The pitch or frequency can be stated in a number of different
>>> ways:*
>>>
>>>
>>> - *The scientific way, e.g. "512Hz".*
>>>
>>> *This method is absolutely precise and accurate*
>>> *There is no possibility of error or inaccuracy*
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> - As a musical description, e.g. "Treble C" or, " c' ", or "The third
>>> space on the treble-clef", or "C above middle C"
>>>
>>> *This method is not precise and not accurate*
>>> *There is scope for misunderstanding*
>>> *If the instruction is understood, the exact pitch is imprecise and will
>>> depend on the tuning of the instrument*
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ganesh
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Ganesh Narayanan <
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is Rhythm...
>>>>
>>>> - *Rhythm in music is dependent on the fact that humans recognise a
>>>> beat occurring at a regular interval.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - *Rhythm in music is more than just a beat, however; it is the way
>>>> that sounds with differing lengths (or gaps between them) and accents
>>>> can
>>>> combine to produce patterns in time which contain a beat.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - *These sounds do not have to be particularly musical; rhythms can
>>>> be made by striking almost anything, as long as there can be difference
>>>> in
>>>> accent.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - *Differences in accent can mean different sounds or just different
>>>> loudness (i.e. amplitudes) of sounds*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - *It is common to speak of a particular rhythm, referring to a
>>>> pattern of note lengths which occurs in a piece of music.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - *It is important to understand that the rhythm is defined by the
>>>> pattern; the overall speed of it could vary from performance to
>>>> performance,
>>>> but the rhythm would still be the same.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - *The speed or tempo of a piece of music is indicated by a
>>>> metronome marking and/or a direction word or phrase; its rhythm is
>>>> specified
>>>> by various note lengths creating beats within bars.*
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ganesh
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Ganesh Narayanan <
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What is a Bar or measure?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Music is normally divided into equal time-lengths called bars
>>>>> (or, in some countries, measures - see alternative names), each
>>>>> consisting
>>>>> of the same number of beats.
>>>>> - The time signature gives the number of beats in a bar and the
>>>>> type of beats, so it tells you how long each bar is (in terms of the
>>>>> number
>>>>> and type of notes and/or rests in a single part in that bar).
>>>>> - Bars dividers, called bar-lines, are indicated in a score by a
>>>>> vertical line from the top to the bottom of the stave. A double
>>>>> bar-line is
>>>>> written at the end of a piece:
>>>>> http://neilhawes.com/sstheory/stave2pt.gif . The double bar-line is
>>>>> sometimes written with the second line thicker than the first; this is
>>>>> normally used at the very end of a piece, and two equal lines are used
>>>>> at
>>>>> the end of sections.
>>>>> - Bars give an intuitive division of a piece of music into
>>>>> manageable chunks; the strongest accents come on the beat immediately
>>>>> following a bar line, so it is relatively easy to count bars, and it
>>>>> should
>>>>> be easy to count the beats within each bar.
>>>>> - The number of bars in a section of music is often regular; four
>>>>> bars often make a short phrase, eight bars and sixteen bars are often
>>>>> the
>>>>> section sizes next largest. These numbers feel "natural"; a section of
>>>>> 17 or
>>>>> 19 bars often feels "wrong". This is because of a hierarchical
>>>>> structure of
>>>>> beats strengths that we naturally feel; there is a strong accent on
>>>>> the beat
>>>>> at the beginning of every fourth bar, an even stronger one at the
>>>>> beginning
>>>>> of every eighth bar, and so on.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Ganesh Narayanan <
>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> *Within the context of a piece of music, the word beat has a special
>>>>>> meaning. It is the consistent pulse of the music, as in the previous
>>>>>> meaning
>>>>>> (above), but the special meaning also includes the duration of the beat
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> the way the beats are grouped.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - *The note length of the beat is specified by the time signature.
>>>>>> *
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - *The time signature also specifies how many of these beats there
>>>>>> are in a bar.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - *The speed of this beat is specified by any direction words
>>>>>> and/or metronome marking.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - *The first beat in each bar is generally felt as stronger than
>>>>>> the other beats in the bar. This might be literally by a stronger beat
>>>>>> perhaps by a drum, or it might be implied by the harmonic or melodic
>>>>>> shape
>>>>>> of the music. Within a bar of four or more beats, there will almost
>>>>>> certainly be a sub-division, which means that another beat in the bar
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> be felt as being stronger than the others, but not as strong as the
>>>>>> first.
>>>>>> This pattern of strong, less strong and weaker beats is normally
>>>>>> governed by
>>>>>> the time signature.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Ganesh Narayanan <
>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jus thought of sharing some really useful Information that i found on
>>>>>>> the net while trying to get some music lessons....of late hearing a lot
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> musical Jargons on orkut...thought of reading up on them to understand
>>>>>>> what
>>>>>>> do they exactly mean...hope u'll enjoy reading it!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is a Beat.... There are two slightly different meanings of the
>>>>>>> word "beat" in music, but the second is essentially a special case of
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> first:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *1) Beat is the most fundamental concept of rhythm:*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - *A beat is a pulse that occurs at regular intervals, i.e. with
>>>>>>> equal time intervals between the pulses, which is heard (and often
>>>>>>> felt) by
>>>>>>> humans.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - *A regular beat can have an emotional effect on a person: for
>>>>>>> example, it can be exciting, relaxing or irritating.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - *There are probably many reasons why our brains "tune in" to a
>>>>>>> regular pulse:*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>> * Our heartbeat is (normally) regular
>>>>>>> * When we walk or run, our feet land in a regular rhythm (in order
>>>>>>> to maintain balance)
>>>>>>> * To be able to judge time properly, we have to be able to
>>>>>>> accurately subdivide it, e.g. count seconds*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *# **These regular intervals could be any perceptible interval, but
>>>>>>> experience shows that useful pulse speeds are those which can be
>>>>>>> counted and
>>>>>>> felt, which are similar to the speed of walking, or the speed of a
>>>>>>> heartbeat, i.e. between around 40 a minute and 200 a minute (over 3 per
>>>>>>> second).*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *# **In general, a slow beat will be about 70 or less, which can be
>>>>>>> compared to a leisurely walking speed or a heartbeat in relaxation; a
>>>>>>> fast
>>>>>>> beat will be from 120 upwards, which can be compared to a fast walk or
>>>>>>> run
>>>>>>> or a fast-beating heart; generally speaking, a slow beat is relaxing
>>>>>>> and a
>>>>>>> fast beat is exciting.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *#* *The beat may have a definite frequency or pitch, or it may not.
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *# **Even if a beat is regular, it may not be exactly the same each
>>>>>>> beat each time:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * the volume may change in some pattern
>>>>>>> * the pitch may change in some pattern
>>>>>>> * the tone may change in some pattern
>>>>>>> * any combination of any of the above may change*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *# **When a beat is combined with patterns of accents, and other
>>>>>>> patterns of changes in pitch, volume etc., then you have the beginnings
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> rhythm.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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