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pitch
Sign in to saveAlso known as pitch in music, musical pitch, pitch of a note, pitch of a tone
perceptual property in music ordering sounds from low to high
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Within Vinony's link graph, pitch is referenced by 1,294 other articles, and connects out to note sign, frequency and scale.
It is catalogued under topics including Cognitive musicology, Perception and Pitch (music).
Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- wave
- Image
- Frequenz-Halbton-Oktave-4.svg
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- Commons category
- Pitch (music)
- topic's main category
- Category:Pitch (music)
- has characteristic
- fundamental frequency
- different from
- loudness
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Encyclopedic overview
In musical notation, the different vertical positions of notes indicate different pitches. Play top: Play bottom:
Pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies. Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale. Pitch is a major auditory attribute of musical tones, along with duration, loudness, and timbre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pitch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.