VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Evelyn Glennie, Engine Balance, Fundamental Frequency
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Quotes on western music: (cid:392)currently recognized divisions between art music and folk music are inadequate and misleading as conceptual tools. On music: (cid:392)music is a product of the behaviour of human groups, whether formal or informal: it is humanly organized sound. (cid:393) Frequency in acoustics, the number of complete vibrations or cycles per second in a vibrating system, such as a string or a column of air; frequency is the primary determinant of the listener"s perception of pitch. Pitch the relative position (high or low) of a musical sound, depending on its fundamental frequency (the number of cycles per second of the sounding object); the faster the vibrations, the higher the pitch. Tone a sound with a definite, consistent pitch. Harmonics a series of frequencies, all of which are integral multiples of a single frequency termed the fundamental; the secondary tones above a fundamental pitch that, taken in sum, help form the totality of that sound.
