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| | |  absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Michelle Branch - Biography and music careerShe was born 7 weeks premature in Flagstaff, Arizona and was named after The Beatles' song "Michelle". Her father is of Irish ancestry and her mother is of Dutch, Indonesian (Javanese), and French ancestry. She has an older half-brother, David, and a younger sister, Nicole. She attended Red Rock High School in Sedona.
Branch first wanted to write songs as soon as she hit her teens, beginning to write shortly after that. She asked for — and got — a guitar on her 14th birthday, and later signed up for vocal classes. In high school, ...
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Neume - Solesmes notation Various manuscripts and printed editions of Gregorian chant, using varying styles of square-note neumes, circulated throughout the Catholic church for centuries. Some editions added rhythmic patterns, or meter, to the chants. In the 19th century the monks of the Benedictine abbey of Solesmes, particularly Dom Joseph Pothier (1835-1923) and Dom André Mocquereau (1849-1930) collected facsimiles of the earliest manuscripts and published them in a book called Paléographie musicale. They also assembled definitive versions of many of the chants, ...
See also:Neume, Neume - History, Neume - Solesmes notation, Neume - Clefs, Neume - Single note neumes, Neume - Two-note neumes, Neume - Three-note neumes, Neume - Compound neumes, Neume - Other basic markings, Neume - Interpretive marks, Neume - Rhythmic interpretation of neumes, Neume - Other types of neumes Read more here: » Neume: Encyclopedia II - Neume - Solesmes notation |
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Timpani - Performance techniques
Timpani - Striking the drum.
For general playing, a timpanist will beat the head approximately 4 inches in from the edge. Beating at this spot produces the round, resonant sound commonly associated with timpani.
A timpani roll is executed simply by rapidly striking the drum, alternating between left and right sticks. Timpanists do not use multiple-stroke rolls like those played on the snare drum.
The tone quality of the drum can be altered without switching sticks or fiddling with the tuning ...
See also:Timpani, Timpani - The instrument, Timpani - The basic timpano, Timpani - Machine timpani, Timpani - Timpani heads, Timpani - Timpani sticks, Timpani - Timpani in the modern ensemble, Timpani - A set of timpani, Timpani - Timpanists, Timpani - Timpani concerti, Timpani - Performance techniques, Timpani - Striking the drum, Timpani - Tuning, Timpani - Muffling, Timpani - Special effects, Timpani - History, Timpani - Pre-orchestral history, Timpani - Timpani in the orchestra, Timpani - Timpani outside the orchestra Read more here: » Timpani: Encyclopedia II - Timpani - Performance techniques |
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Need to standardize pitch The need to standardize pitch levels, at least within one city or country, rose as performance of music which combined the organ with instrumental ensembles became more popular. One way in which pitch could be controlled was with the use of tuning forks, although even here there was variation - a tuning fork associated with Handel, dating from 1740, is pitched at A = 422.5 Hz, while a later one from 1780 is pitched at A = 409 Hz, almost a semitone lower. Nonetheless, there was a tendency towards the end of the 18th century for the frequency of ...
See also:Pitch music, Pitch music - Perception of pitch, Pitch music - Examples, Pitch music - Concert pitch, Pitch music - Varying pitch, Pitch music - Scales, Pitch music - Other musical meanings of pitch, Pitch music - Historical pitch standards, Pitch music - Need to standardize pitch, Pitch music - Changing the pitch of a vibrating string, Pitch music - Length, Pitch music - Tension, Pitch music - Density, Pitch music - Sources Read more here: » Pitch music: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Need to standardize pitch |
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Timpani - History
Timpani - Pre-orchestral history.
The nakers from Arabic origin were found in medieval Europe. These developed into the European kettledrums, or timpani.
Timpani were brought to 13th century Europe by Crusaders and Saracens. These drums, which were small (around 20–22 cm or 8–8½ in in diameter) and mounted to the player's belt, were used primarily for military ceremonies. This form of timpani rema ...
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Equal temperament - Explanation The distance between each step and the next is aurally the same for any two adjacent steps; though, because steps form a geometric sequence, the difference in frequency increases from one to the next. A linear sequence of one frequency difference would create ever smaller intervals (ratios), such as the harmonic series. See also logarithmic scale.
Equal temperaments allow the use of integer notation; a single integer can be used to represent the pitch. The pitch classes can then be expressed in terms of modular arithmetic modulo the number of divisions of the octave, and this expedites mathematic ...
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Equal temperament - Non-12 TET Five and seven tone equal temperament, with 240 and 171 cent steps relatively, seem the most common outside of 12-tET. A Thai xylophone measured by Morton (1974) "varied only plus or minus 5 cents," from 7-tET. A Ugandan Chop xylophone measured by Haddon (1952) also tuned to 171 cent steps. Gamelans are tuned to 5-tET according to Kunst (1949), but according to Hood (1966) and McPhee (1966) their tuning varies widely and according to Tenzer (2000) contain stretched octaves. It is now well-accepted that of the two primary tuning systems in Ga ...
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Timpani - Timpani in the modern ensemble
Timpani - A set of timpani.
A standard set of timpani consists of four drums: roughly 80 cm (32 in), 75 cm (29 in), 66 cm (26 in), and 61 cm (23 in) in diameter. The range of this set is roughly the D below the bass clef to the top-line bass clef A. A great majority of the orchestral repertoire can be played using these four drums. However, Igor Stravinsky writes for the B below middle C in The Rite of Spring, and Leonard Bernstein requires the timpanist to execute b ...
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Neume - History Although chant was probably sung since the earliest days of the church, for centuries they were only transmitted orally.
The earliest systems involving neumes are of Aramaic origin and were used to notate inflections in the quasi-emmelic recitation of the Christian holy scriptures. As such they resemble functionally a similar system used for the notation of recitation of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam. This early system was called ekphonetic notation, from the Greek ekphonesis meaning ...
See also:Neume, Neume - History, Neume - Solesmes notation, Neume - Clefs, Neume - Single note neumes, Neume - Two-note neumes, Neume - Three-note neumes, Neume - Compound neumes, Neume - Other basic markings, Neume - Interpretive marks, Neume - Rhythmic interpretation of neumes, Neume - Other types of neumes Read more here: » Neume: Encyclopedia II - Neume - History |
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Perception of pitch Pitch is a subjective quality and is something perceived by the human ear, as opposed to frequency, which is the physical measurement of vibration per second.
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See also:Pitch music, Pitch music - Perception of pitch, Pitch music - Examples, Pitch music - Concert pitch, Pitch music - Varying pitch, Pitch music - Scales, Pitch music - Other musical meanings of pitch, Pitch music - Historical pitch standards, Pitch music - Need to standardize pitch, Pitch music - Changing the pitch of a vibrating string, Pitch music - Length, Pitch music - Tension, Pitch music - Density, Pitch music - Sources Read more here: » Pitch music: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Perception of pitch |
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Other musical meanings of pitch In atonal, twelve tone, or musical set theory a "pitch" is a specific frequency while a pitch class is all the octaves of a frequency. Pitches are named with integers because of octave and enharmonic equivalency (for example, C# and Db are the same pitch while C4 and C5 are functionally the same, one octave apart).
Discrete pitches, rather than continuously variable pitches, are virtually universal, with exceptions including "tumbling strains" (Sachs & Kunst, 1962) and "indeterminate-pitch chants" (Malm, 1967). Gliding pitches are used in most cultures, but are rela ...
See also:Pitch music, Pitch music - Perception of pitch, Pitch music - Examples, Pitch music - Concert pitch, Pitch music - Varying pitch, Pitch music - Scales, Pitch music - Other musical meanings of pitch, Pitch music - Historical pitch standards, Pitch music - Need to standardize pitch, Pitch music - Changing the pitch of a vibrating string, Pitch music - Length, Pitch music - Tension, Pitch music - Density, Pitch music - Sources Read more here: » Pitch music: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Other musical meanings of pitch |
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Timpani - The instrument
Timpani - The basic timpano.
The basic timpano consists of a drumhead stretched across the opening of a bowl typically made of copper or, in less expensive models, fiberglass. The drumhead is connected to a hoop, which is then attached to the bowl via a number of tuning screws called tension rods placed regularly along the circumference. The head's tension can be adjusted by loosening or tightening the rods. Mo ...
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| | | | absolute pitch: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Changing the pitch of a vibrating string There are three ways to change the pitch of a vibrating string. String instruments are tuned by varying the strings' tension because adjusting length or mass per unit length is impractical.
Pitch music - Length.
Pitch can be adjusted by varying the length of the string. A longer string will result in a lower pitch and vice versa. The change in frequency is inversely proportional to the change in length:
A string twice as long will produce a t ...
See also:Pitch music, Pitch music - Perception of pitch, Pitch music - Examples, Pitch music - Concert pitch, Pitch music - Varying pitch, Pitch music - Scales, Pitch music - Other musical meanings of pitch, Pitch music - Historical pitch standards, Pitch music - Need to standardize pitch, Pitch music - Changing the pitch of a vibrating string, Pitch music - Length, Pitch music - Tension, Pitch music - Density, Pitch music - Sources Read more here: » Pitch music: Encyclopedia II - Pitch music - Changing the pitch of a vibrating string |
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