Pitch
This is the unit of measurement for frequency.
What is Hertz (Hz)?
Timbre is the quality that allows us to distinguish these from one another, even on the same note.
What are Instruments (or voices)?
The lowest frequency humans can typically hear.
What is 20 Hz?
The instrument used as an example of plucking harmonics at the 12th fret.
What is a guitar?
No human culture lacks this aspect of life.
What is music?
A none at 220 Hz & another at 440 Hz are an example of this relationship
What is an octave?
The first part of a sound, before the tone stabilizes, is called this.
What is the attack?
The highest frequency humans can typically hear.
What is 20,000 Hz?
This instrument, made of brass, amplifies harmonics rather evenly.
What is a trumpet?
Notes outside our hearing range become this.
What is indistinct (or unrecognizable)?
Pitch is not a physical property but exists only here.
A clarinet and trumpet sound different because they amplify these differently.
What are Harmonics?
Sounds below 20 Hz are not distinct notes but are perceived like this.
What is a rumble?
This instrument, made of different materials, amplifies some harmonics more than others.
What is a clarinet?
This mental image of vibrations is what we perceive as pitch.
What is a musical note?
The A note is often tuned to this standard frequency.
What is 440 Hz?
Timbre also includes this aspect, meaning changes in pitch, volume, or tone over time.
What is flux?
Very high frequencies above 4,000 Hz may sound like these types of noises.
What are snaps, hisses, clicks, or squeaks?
The instrument used in the reading to test perception of lowest and highest notes.
What is the piano?
Music perception relies on both physical vibrations and this mental process.
What is brain interpretation (or perception)?
A note produces not only its main frequency but also these multiples of it.
What are harmonies (overtones)?
The main factor that determines timbre in an instrument is this combination of sound features.
What are overtones and harmonics?
Humans can hear about this many octaves of musical notes.
What are seven or eight octaves?
The attack phase of a note can include clicks of these parts hitting or moving.
What are keys, strings, horns, or drums?
The reading concludes that the only place music really exists is here.
What is in our heads (the brain)?