Octave
Octave For other uses of the word octave, see Octave (disambiguation). perfect octave Inverse unison Complement octave Name Other names - Abbreviation P8 Size ...
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Inversion (music)
... just leads to the tonic again, an octave higher. Chords of four notes or more ... after a note name to indicate the octave in which a single note is to ... is, one that is narrower than an octave) and its inversion, when added together, will equal an octave. See also complement (music). Inversion in counterpoint ... can occur at various intervals, usually the octave (8va), less often at the 10th ...
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Talk:Interval (music)
... material after the semicolon. Unison, fourth, fifth, octave. These intervals can be described as perfect ... diminished unison is controversial (since the augmented octave arguably has it as its inversion). Better ... first group of intervals (unison, fourth, fifth, octave)? The rarity of the augmented octave, both vertically and horizontally, might with profit ... a different and quite recherché theoretical schema. Octave equivalency describes the perception that octaves ...
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Tonality
... across time & cultures, namely, a tone's octave, 4th and 5th), when their overtones are placed within the range of that octave, will evolve into the most widespread of ... as if they were played in one octave or octave equivalency. Tonal music also assumes that scales ...
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Talk:Gamelan
... have two rows of bars. --Camembert Pseudo-octave I think the comment about inexact octave tuning applies to Balinese gamelan (giving it ... sum of the intervals remains just one octave for each gamelan. Some specifis based on ... model of pitch to account for both octave equivalency, which the Balinese hear, and the ...
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Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems
... A pitch collection should recur at the octave to produce pitch classes. [ octave equivalency ] Constraint 12: There must be a strong ... just intonation ] Constraint 13: Division of the octave into equal parts facilitates transposition and reduces ... of n-fold equal divisions of the octave. Then subsets that satisfy uniqueness, coherence, ...
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Arab tone system
... based upon the theoretical division of the octave into twenty-four equal divisions or 24 ... repeated in different octaves, unlike systems featuring octave equivalency. The lowest tone is named yakah and ... range of the singer. The next higher octave is nawa and the second tuti. (Touma ... in the European equally tempered scale the octave is divide into twelve equal divisions, ...
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Unison
... other uses, see Unison (disambiguation). unison Inverse octave Complement unison Name Other names perfect unison ... always maintaining the same interval of an octave. A pair of notes sung one or a multiple of an octave apart are almost in unison, due to octave equivalency. When there are several voices which ...
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Pitch (music)
... systems have one interval in common, the octave, where the pitch of one note is ... C is 440 Hz, the A an octave above that will be . Other musical meanings ... Pitches are named with integers because of octave and enharmonic equivalency (for example, C# and Db are the ... and C5 are functionally the same, one octave apart). Discrete pitches, rather than continuously ...
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Talk:Tonality 01
... interpretation. The assumptions of tonal theory are: Octave equivalency and diatonic functionality not enharmonic equivalency Less so transpositional equivalency and very little inversional equivalency Cadences: Though modulation may occur instantaneously ...
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