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| | Philip Tagg | Note - EPMOW entry (2000) |
 | | According to this general meaning of the term, a note may be long, short, high, low, pitched, unpitched, loud, soft, sharp, rounded, etc. However, although a note may theoretically have any duration, it is virtually impossible to perceive as such if it sounds for less than 0.1 or for more than 12 seconds. |
 | | Pitched notes are named in either absolute terms (a b c d e f g etc.) or in relative terms (for example, doh re mi fa so la ti or sa ri ga ma pa dha ni). |
 | | Absolute note names are based on standard concert pitch (a at 440 Hz) while relative note names presuppose the fixation of doh, la or sa to any one pitch for the duration of a musical continuum, the other names denoting intervallic relationship to that doh or la (see tonic sol-fa, India). |
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