Encyclopedia - Raga: Encyclopedia - Raga
Raga (rāg /राग (Hindi), raga (Anglicised from rāgaḥ/रागः (Sanskrit)) or rāgam /ராகம் (Tamil)) are the melodi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Synaesthesia: Encyclopedia - Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia (also spelled synesthesia); from the Greek (syn-) “union”, and (aesthesis) “sensation”; is the neurological mixing o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Equal Temperament - History
Vincenzo Galilei (father of Galileo Galilei) may have been the first person to advocate equal temperament (in a 1581 treatise). The first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michelle Branch: Encyclopedia Ii - Michelle Branch - Biography And Music Career
She was born 7 weeks premature in Flagstaff, Arizona and was named after The Beatles' song "Michelle". Her father is of Irish ancestry an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neume: Encyclopedia Ii - Neume - Solesmes Notation
Various manuscripts and printed editions of Gregorian chant, using varying styles of square-note neumes, circulated throughout the Cathol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Synaesthesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Synaesthesia - Synaesthesia In Art
Synaesthesia is an often-used poetic device. In a familiar example, Andrew Marvell characterized the fruitful and serene atmosphere of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timpani: 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 th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitch Music: 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 ins...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timpani: Encyclopedia Ii - Timpani - History
Timpani - Pre-orchestral history. The nakers from Arabic origin were found in medieval Europe. These developed into the European kettle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: 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 sequen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: 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 m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Equal Temperament - Twelve-tone Equal Temperament
The ratio between two adjacent semitones can be found with a few steps: 1. Let an be the frequency of a tone n, with a12 an octave above...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timpani: 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),...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michelle Branch: Encyclopedia Ii - Michelle Branch - Discography
Michelle Branch - Albums. Broken Bracelet (2000) (Uncertified) The Spirit Room (2001) #28 U.S. RIAA Certification: platinum Hotel Pape...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neume: 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 sys...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Synaesthesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Synaesthesia - Clinical Description
Synaesthesia is a real phenomenon: indeed, some people see colors when they hear or read letters and numbers (the most common form). Othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitch Music: 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitch Music: 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. Pi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timpani: 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 o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitch Music: 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 adju...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitch Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Pitch Music - Historical Pitch Standards
As well as various systems of musical tuning being used to determine the relative frequency of notes in a scale, various pitch standards ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timpani: Encyclopedia Ii - Timpani - Timpani Sticks
Timpani are typically struck with a special type of drumstick fittingly called a timpani stick or timpani mallet. Timpani sticks are used...   » Read the article