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	Concert Pitch
		Concert pitch refers to the standard of pitch used in orchestras, instrument makers, and those creating devices utilized to calibrate musical instruments such tuning forks and electronic tuners.
		In the past the determination of concert pitch tended to be established by instrument makers, in particular organ makers, and the requests of their clientele, usually the Church during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.
		This varying concert pitch is the very phenomena that led the Italian government to try to establish concert A at 432 Hz in 1880, so as to protect the voices of the opera singers.
	www.bobnancy.com /waldorf/concert_pitch.htm (2006 words)

	Philip Tagg \| Pitch - EPMOW entry (2001)
		Pitch, therefore, most frequently refers to the position of a note’s perceived fundamental on the axis of low to high frequency.
		Until the nineteenth century, when the fixed pitch of a converged on a range between 410 and 450 Hz, keyboard players would have to transpose, wind instrumentalists take extra lengths of tubing on their travels, and string players radically retune, all in accordance with the local norm.
		G, D, A or E) is heard a semitone higher or lower than concert pitch: a simple tune in, say, G major may then be heard, and its constituent notes seen, as if it were in G$ (key signature of six flats) or G# (seven sharps, of which one double).
	www.tagg.org /articles/epmow/pitch.html (851 words)

	Concert pitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Instruments in a band or orchestra tune to the concert pitch which is typically the universal standard A' = 440 Hz.
		While concert pitch is non-transposing, a variety of wind instruments, such as the trumpet, clarinet, and horn are transposing instruments, indicating that the pitch A', as relating to that instrument, will not be sounded as an A' concert pitch but rather a pitch called an A' on that instrument.
		Thus, when a B-flat trumpet plays an A' (first and second valves), the instrument is actually sounding a G' concert pitch.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textc/Concertpitch.html (91 words)

	History of Pitch - Tuning Forks A440 C523.3
		Modern science began to measure pitch accuracy in cps or cycles per second around 1834 when a group of distinguished German physicists using a mechanical stroboscopic device found that the pitch of the tuning fork that they were testing was at A440 cps.
		In Vienna a pitch of A435.4 was adopted at a temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit for A. At an international exhibition of inventions and music in London a pitch of A452 was adopted.
		Pitches have risen a little, particularly in Eastern European countries, which often wish pianos to be tuned to A 444 or even a bit above.
	www.uk-piano.org /history/pitch.html (1000 words)

	A Few Notes on Pitch
		Musicians may have finally agreed on standardized 'concert pitch', but there is still no scientific consensus on what percentage of the population possesses 'perfect pitch', whether the skill is inherited or learned, or even how perception of pitch is achieved by the brain.
		Pitch is the definition given for the frequency of vibrations of a particular object; the more vibrations in a given period the higher the sound.
		The measurement of pitch, especially with regard to a musical tuning system, has been an issue of concern since antiquity when the philosopher Pythagoras, who established the idea that numbers provided the means for understanding the universe, first proposed a tuning system.
	home.earthlink.net /~douglaspage/id86.html (2543 words)

	concert pitch definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		music standard pitch to which instruments tuned: the internationally agreed standard pitch to which orchestral instruments are tuned, typically using the A above middle C as a reference.
		In an instrument tuned to concert pitch, the A above middle C is at a pitch of 440 cycles per second.
		music pitch of note in transposed music: the sounding pitch of a note played by an instrument when transposing a piece of written music to a different key, as opposed to the written pitch
	ca.encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861688172/concert_pitch.html (147 words)

	Pitch (music)
		Pitch is often cited as one of the fundamental aspects of music.
		In it, the pitch ratio between any two successive notes of the scale is exactly the twelfth root of two (or about 1.05946).
		Gliding pitches are used in most cultures, but are related to the discrete pitches they reference or embellish.
	www.mp3.fm /Pitch_(music).htm (1462 words)

	Graham Nasby's Online Resources - Concert Band Instrumentation
		Pitched between the piccolo and the flute, it was sometimes used instead of the piccolo in band arrangments where the high range of the piccolo was not needed.
		The pitch range of the bassoon is three-and-a-half octaves; it is usually made of maple or rosewood, with a metal bocal.
		Both are pitched the same and have the range, but a baritone has a very narrow bell with cylindrical tubing, while a euphonium has a large bell with conical tubing.
	www.grahamnasby.com /misc/concertband-instrumentation.shtml (6317 words)

	Pitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The sense of pitch depends on the intensity of the tone, as shown in the graph; below 1000 Hz, pitch tends to drop with increasing loudness, and above 1000 Hz, tends to rise.
		The pitch ascribed to a complex tone or sound may not necessarily correspond to a frequency that is physically present in the sound.
		In summary, Schouten has stated, "The pitch ascribed to a complex sound is the pitch of that component to which the attention, either by virtue of its loudness or of its contrast with former sounds is strongest drawn.
	www.sfu.ca /sonic-studio/handbook/Pitch.html (566 words)

	Pitch (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound.
		Pitch can be adjusted by varying the length of the string.
		Pitch can be adjusted by varying the tension of the string.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitch_(music) (2335 words)

	Great Performances . All-Star Piano Extravaganza: The Verbier Festival & Academy Concert . Essay . Monster Concert \| PBS
		The focus at the coffeehouse concerts would not have necessarily been on the performers' virtuosity, though we know Bach and other Germans valued that, but more on the pleasing interaction between soloists and the ensemble.
		The first known "monster concert," as they came to be called, took place in 1830 as a benefit for victims of a recent flooding of the Danube.
		Concerts like this one were popular because the piano held a central place in domestic life.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/verbier/essay1.html (538 words)

	Flat Sets - “Vive La Difference !” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		"Concert Pitch" is the term used to refer to the sort of pipes which were made and played by Leo Rowesome and his father Willie before him amongst others.
		Most of these are built to play at or near modern concert pitch with lowest or key note D, hence their title.
		It is unlikely that a chanter which we would now identify as a B or as a C was designed to play in a pitch exactly the same as modern B or C. A common pitch standard in the early 20th century was A453, now known as OP or Old Philharmonic pitch.
	www.irishpipersclub.org /articles/flatSets.html (1655 words)

	Music Theory / The Score
		In the concert score the focus is on concert pitch, the universal sound.
		Concert and transposed scores for these string instruments are the same.
		Being able to tell whether notes are concert or transposed, irregardless of the key signature, is something you will pick up as you learn about chords, progressions and other music theory fundamentals.
	www.musicarrangers.com /star-theory/p19.htm (434 words)

	Concert Pitch???? - StoneDragon's Guitar Discussion Forum
		Concert pitch simply dictates which note will be the note all others are tuned to, accordingly and the exact pitch of that reference note...
		Tempered tuning refers to how each of the remaining pitches are tuned relative to the concert pitch.
		when you mess with the pitch of those notes, you mess with how they react along with other pitches on the neck....
	www.zentao.com /ubb/Forum2/HTML/000773.html (410 words)

	Online Tuning Fork - Tuning Forks - Concert A - Perfect pitch
		Standard Pitch or Concert Pitch is a universal frequency or note that all musical instruments are tuned to.
		Pitch pipes and electronic tuning forks can also be used, but are not as common.
		The pitch (or frequency) of the sound wave is determined by the length of the prongs.
	www.onlinetuningfork.com (342 words)

	Music Books & Videos FAQs
		However, in the passt, pitch pipes have been used and today electronic tuning forks are also used but the most common is the tuning fork.
		The use of modern science to measure pitch accuracy in Hzs was around 1834 when a group of distinguished German physicists using a mechanical stroboscopic device found that the pitch of the tuning fork that they were testing was at A440 Hz.
		1885 In Vienna a pitch of 435.4 was adopted at a temperature of 59% Fahrenheit for A
	www.folkofthewood.com /page4724.htm (1151 words)

	Transposing Instruments
		The fundamental pitch of a woodwind (the recorder, for example) is considered to be the lowest note it can play when all holes are closed.
		The fundamental pitch of a brass instrument, on the other hand, is considered to be the fundamental of the harmonic series it plays when no valves are being used.
		Baritone and Euphonium - These instruments are pitched in B flat, and may or may not be treated as a transposing instrument.
	cnx.org /content/m10672/latest (1515 words)

	Pitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pitch of Alpha Helix, the rise in an alpha helix coil as the coil turns.
		The typical pitch in an alpha helix is 5.4 angstroms with the exception of alpha keratin which has a pitch of 5.1 angstroms.
		Pitch (baseball), a throw of a baseball to a batter
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitch (327 words)

	Concert_Pitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In Western music, the present day standard of concert pitch is a´ 440, i.e.
		of the pitch A in the first octave above middle C is 440 Hz (adopted, International Standards Association conference, London, 1939).
		Before that (although hoch Kammerton - chamber pitch, a semitone lower than a´ 440 - was the most common instrumental pitch from ca.
	www.sfu.ca /sonic-studio/handbook/Concert_Pitch.html (137 words)

	The Basics of Reading Music - By Kevin Meixner
		Notice that as you go from the lower pitch notes on the left of the piano to the higher pitch notes on the right side of the piano the notes are written on the staffs in ascending order.
		Now the last thing you need to know is that not all songs are written in concert pitch (the key of C major containing all and only the white notes on the piano).
		Of course music is not simply about pitch and rhythm, there are expressive devises such as dynamics (changes in volume (loudness) of sound), articulations (the style of what types of sound you make) and many more musical devices which I will get to in a later lesson.
	www.notationmachine.com /how_to_read_sheetmusic/readingmusic.htm (3754 words)

	NWCForum - confused about concert keys
		Instruments are said to be pitched in different keys because the musicians read from parts that have been transposed - thus "transposing instruments." Transposing the written part makes life a lot easier for the musician who plays more than one instrument.
		No, the reality is it is the copyist who extracts each part from a composition or arrangement written in concert pitch, and does all the transposition for you.
		You say its in the "concert pitch of Bb", that means that on a piano, organ, anything else that PLAYS in concert pitch in the first place, you just have to find the music in Bb.
	www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/2293.htm (4253 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Concert pitch
		He is about to sign a new record deal, be the subject of a big BBC TV documentary, and perform an important concert series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
		Hints as to Philip's own family background suggest both his need for and fear of the nurturing woman: the illegitimate child of a nurse, he was adopted at birth and never really bonded with his new parents.
		These circumstances make it clear that his lifelong struggle to replace human love with music has indeed been his "destiny", and the novel, in the end, supports the premise that concert virtuosi (and their families) are often, at some level, sacrificial victims.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1831317,00.html (611 words)

	NWCForum - I'm confused, how do I transpose for Bari sax and Alto sax
		If you're copying parts from a score, the score may be written either in concert pitch or it may be transposed.
		All of that is based on first entering the notes in concert pitch and transposing them.
		If we left the instruments as they are now, but wrote for all of them in concert pitch, it would be very difficult for a clarinetist to double on the low clarinets.
	www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/3282.htm (2891 words)

	Theremin Vox - Relative pitch
		Unlike absolute pitch (sometimes inaccurately called "perfect pitch"), relative pitch is quite common among musicians, especially jazz musicians who are used to "playing by ear".
		Also unlike perfect pitch relative pitch is common among non-musicians and there's no doubt that it's possible to develop through practice.
		Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first two notes of a popular song, examples of which may be found at ear training.
	www.thereminvox.com /article/view/101/1/29 (313 words)

	Temperament and Concert Pitch of Pianos
		While a violinist or flautist can vary the pitch of notes to make them fit pleasingly within the key they are playing, this is not possible on the piano.
		Andrew usually tunes in the modern equal temperament at modern concert pitch, A4=440 hertz.
		Re-tuning to an alternate concert pitch or temperament would typically be charged as a Pitch Correction.
	www.andersonmusic.com /pianos/temperament.htm (510 words)

	Berkleemusic - Thread - Transposing to Concert Pitch
		Concert Pitch means that it sounds as it is written.
		It's been awhile since I've used Allegro, but since it is a bargain version of Finale, perhaps it handles concert pitch the same way.
		Look under the options dropdown menu, and see if it says "display in concert pitch." If it does, click on that, and it should immediately transpose all the instrument parts, the entire score to concert pitch.
	www.berkleemusic.com /discuss/message?message_id=2835527&forum_id=13332 (258 words)

	New Page 2
		The easy way to look at transposition - the key a transposing instrument is in is the concert pitch heard when that instrument plays its written "C" Example 1 - an F horn playing its written "C" is playing an "F" concert.
		If you need to transpose concert pitch music to A clarinet music, an "A" concert is an A clarinet's "C," so all notes move up a Minor 3rd or down a Major 6th
		The written pitch for each instrument group is given for all concert pitch notes.
	www.geocities.com /pwillis791/transpose.html (183 words)

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