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absolute pitch
absolute pitch the position of a tone in the musical scale determined according to its number of vibrations per second, irrespective of other tones. The term also denotes the capacity to identify any tone upon hearing it sounded alone or to sing any specified tone. Experiments have shown that this ... Read more
pitch
pitch in music, the position of a tone in the musical scale , today designated by a letter name and determined by the frequency of vibration of the source of the tone. Pitch is an attribute of every musical tone; the fundamental, or first harmonic , of any tone is perceived as its pitch. The earl... Read more
staff
staff in musical notation, a set of horizontal lines upon and between which notes are written so as to determine their relative pitch, and in connection with a clef, their absolute pitch. Staffs with several lines survive from the late 9th cent., the lines denoting only pitches. In early attempts a... Read more
serial music
serial music the body of compositions whose fundamental syntactical reference is a particular ordering (called series or row) of the twelve pitch classes—C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B—that constitute the equal-tempered scale. In contrast to tonal music, whose unity is perceive... Read more
musical notation
musical notation symbols used to make a written record of musical sounds. Two different systems of letters were used to write down the instrumental and the vocal music of ancient Greece. In his five textbooks on music theory Boethius (c.AD 470-AD 525) applied the first 15 letters of the alph... Read more
music
music For information on types of music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer music ; electronic music ; jazz ; program music ; rock music ; serial music ; and spiritual . In addition, see entries on the music of various nations an... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "absolute pitch"

absolute pitch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition the position of a tone in the musical scale determined according to its number of vibrations per second, irrespective of other tones. The term also denotes the capacity to identify any tone upon hearing it sounded alone or to sing any specified tone. Experiments have shown that this ability, a form Read more
pitch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...fundamental, or first harmonic , of any tone is perceived as its pitch. The earliest successful attempt to standardize pitch was made in 1858, when a commission of musicians and scientists...cycles per second. Before the middle of the 19th cent., pitch varied according to time, place, and medium of ... Read more
staff
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...written so as to determine their relative pitch, and in connection with a clef, their absolute pitch. Staffs with several lines survive from...letters on certain of them to indicate their pitch, thus foreshadowing the use of the clef... Read more
serial music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...particular ordering (called series or row) of the twelve pitch classes—C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B—that...the triad (the major or minor chord), serial music is not pitch centric, i.e., there is no home key. Instead, the presence...their coherence. These forms are the prime, retrograde (pitch ... Read more
musical notation
Book article from: World Encyclopedia musical notation Method of writing down music – its language. Staff notation defines the absolute and relative pitches of notes; crotchets, quavers, etc., indicate their time values. Read more
music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition For information on types of music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer...harmonic ; harmony ; key ; measure ; mode ; musicology ; note ; pitch ; polyphony ; rhythm ; scale ; syncopation ; tablature ; temperament... Read more
Native American music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...melody is, in general, characterized by a descending melodic figure; its rhythm is irregular. There is no conception of absolute pitch and intonation can appear uncertain, the result of the distinctive method of voice production, involving muscular... Read more
Chinese music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the proper huang chung, or tone of absolute pitch. The huang chung was produced by...that roughly approximated the normal pitch of a man's voice. Other pipes were...used symbols that represented the pitch names of the lüs. Players of flutes... Read more
Glenn Gould
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...reading music at the age of three, discovered that he had perfect pitch at around the same time, and was composing small pieces when...noted German critic H. H. Stuckenschmidt hailed him as "an absolute genius, the greatest pianist since Busoni." End of His Concert... Read more
geodesy and geodetic measurements
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...measured. Terrestrial gravity measurements can be made in an absolute sense by measuring the time for a pellet to fall a fixed...to long-term drift in excess of 0.05 mgal/month, whereas absolute gravimeters can reach accuracies of 0.001 mgal and do not...are less accurate than those on land, first because of ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "absolute pitch"

absolute pitch (sense of)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music absolute pitch (sense of). That sense which some people possess of the actual...pitch may readily be acquired by practice, but the sense of absolute pitch much less easily. Absolute pitch is really an innate form of memory: the possessor retains... Read more
absolute pitch
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable absolute pitch the ability to recognize the pitch of a note or produce any given note; also called perfect pitch. Read more
perfect pitch
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music perfect pitch. See absolute pitch . Read more
hexachord
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...then in use for the notes, but these were absolute names, as they are still, whereas the...the moment: the sol-fa system (on its pitch side) may, indeed, be looked upon as a...cent. the term is applied to a coll. of 6 pitch classes considered either simultaneously... Read more
flat
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...completely definite and firm; absolute: his statement was a...below true or normal pitch. ∎  [in comb...2. inf. completely; absolutely: I'm turning you down...below the true or normal pitch of musical sound: it...semitone below natural pitch. ∎  the sign... Read more
Women Working in World War II (1941, by Peggy Terry)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...thirty-two dollars a week. (Laughs.) To us it was just an absolute miracle. Before that, we made nothing. You won't believe...it meant. Didn't you have a radio? Gosh, no. That was an absolute luxury. We were just moving around, working wherever we could...a box of detonators off on the floor. Here we were in ... Read more

Thesaurus entries related to "absolute pitch"

black
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...x2022; adjective   1. a black horse synonyms : dark, pitch-black, jet-black, coal-black, ebony, sable, inky. antonym...black-and-white terms synonyms : categorical, unequivocal, absolute, uncompromising, unconditional, unqualified, unambiguous, clear... Read more

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'An absolute disgrace' - Jose's pitch verdict.
Newspaper article from: Leamington Spa Courier (Leamington Spa, England); 1/4/2007; 325 words ; ...at a sodden Studley that manager Jose Ascensao branded an absolute disgrace . Defeat to fellow strugglers Studley made it three...series of blank Saturdays due to the dreadful Townsend Meadow pitch this winter. And he called the playing surface at Studley...more suited to wrestling . He added: It was a disgrace ... Read more
Absolute Solutions product mimics manual accounting. (company profile)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 3/28/1988; ; 700+ words ; Absolute Solutions product mimics...Yet that is exactly the pitch that Ocean-side-based Absolute Solutions is making for its...mimics the manual system, Absolute Solutions founder Richard...frustrating to accountants. Absolute Solutions is going to pitch the product first to ... Read more
"Walking Wisdom": former pitcher and coach Bill Fischer: one-time big league starter and reliever offers needed "four absolutes" in becoming a successful hurler.
Magazine article from: Baseball Digest; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...bleeping complicated. It comes down to four things. The four absolutes. People you know, people like Roger Clemens, John Schuerholz...they'll tell you that if you follow Bill Fischer's four absolutes of pitching, everything else falls into place. Of course...rises in the West. Don't bang your heel. That's the ... Read more
Accuracy of nanoscale pitch standards fabricated by laser-focused atomic deposition.
Magazine article from: Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...fabricating nanoscale pitch standard artifacts. The average pitch obtained by the process, nominally half the laser wavelength...an artifact arc also presented. These yield an average pitch of (212.7777 [+ or -] 0.0069) nm, which agrees well with...laser focusing; nanoscale standards; nanotechnology; ... Read more
The king of the plastic pitch.
Newspaper article from: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England); 8/31/2006; 547 words ; The king of Deepdale's plastic pitch was undoubtedly Brian Mooney. For three-and-a-half seasons...and a clash of heads in the first-half saw Mooney leave the pitch to have stitches. Within moments of returning to the action, he cut in from the right wing and curled an absolute stunner of a shot into the top ... Read more
Astroturf pitch for Larne High School?
Newspaper article from: Larne Times (Larne, Northern Ireland); 4/17/2008; 447 words ; ...to be identified as a location for an artificial playing pitch in the town. And this time the borough council is determined...convince planners of Sandy Bay's suitability for the astroturf pitch - and the considerable weight of neighbour objections...of schools hours and at weekends. During school hours the ... Read more
Councils told to find more gipsy pitches.
Newspaper article from: Bury Free Press (Bury St. Edmunds, England); 2/1/2008; 390 words ; ...the Gipsies and Travellers Working Party, said: It's going to be contentious, I suspect, but gipsies and travellers have an absolute right to be housed in the same way that any other member of the population does. The working group is looking into running... Read more
Adjusting Speech Pitch Improves Hearing.(hearing aids)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 10/1/2000; 474 words ; ...better. However, compressing sound frequency--decreasing its pitch--through new computer technology seems to aid those with high-frequen...pathology and audiology. We were able to lower speech frequencies [pitch] to the region where certain individuals have usable hearing...knowledge. The brain perceives ... Read more
Anger at state of Racecourse pitches access road.
Newspaper article from: Carluke Gazette (Carluke, Scotland); 1/16/2007; 464 words ; ...believe magnificent new sand dressed, floodlit pitches would be found beyond such a rundown approach road. ''The road is an absolute mess,'' Alan told the Gazette. ''I'm really angry that a great facility like the new pitches has such a poor approach road... Read more
Football: Off-the-pitch news wipes away Ipswich Town fan Nick Wells' concerns about problems on it.
Newspaper article from: Diss Express (Diss, England); 12/7/2007; 415 words ; ...deep pockets is still adamant that he wants to maintain his absolute anonymity . He will not be attending the EGM, although David...present. But until then we must forget about activities off the pitch and concentrate with those on it, starting with a first away... Read more