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A paradox of musical pitch The 12 pitch classes can be thought of in a circle; one trip around the circle (from C to C) is an octave; halfway around (from C to F#) is an interval called a tritone. And when the peak pitch classes of the younger Vietnamese group were compared with native Californians of the same age, the differences remained highly significant. Odds are that pitch class templates are developed at a very young age--perhaps as infants listen to the intonation of voices around them. www.apa.org /monitor/julaug01/musicpitch.html   (0 words)

Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: ) A pitch class is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart, e.g. Pitch class is important because human pitch-perception is periodic: pitches belonging to the same pitch class are perceived as having a similar "quality" or "color." Psychologists refer to the quality of a pitch as its "chroma"; the music theorists use the term "pitch class" instead. This creates a linear pitch space in which octaves have size 12, semitones (the distance between adjacent keys on the piano keyboard) have size 1, and middle C is assigned the number 60. www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=pitch_class   (757 words)

Pitch class Information Human pitch-perception is periodic: pitches separated by an integral number of octaves are perceived as having a similar "quality" or "color." Psychologists refer to the quality of a pitch as its "chroma." Music theorists typically use the term "pitch class" rather than "chroma." A "pitch class" is a set of all pitches sharing the same chroma, just like "the set of all white things" is the collection of all white objects. This creates a linear pitch space in which octaves have size 12, semitones (the distance between adjacent keys on the piano keyboard) have size 1, and middle C is assigned the number 60. www.bookrags.com /wiki/Pitch_class   (784 words)

flexatone h.f.p. | christopher ariza | athenaCL | netTools | SCv   (Site not responding. Last check: ) A Forte set class number (6-23A), a pitch-class set (4,3,9), a pitch-space set (-3, 23.2, 14), standard pitch letter names (A, C##, E~, G#), MIDI note numbers (58m, 62m), frequency values (222hz, 1403hz), a Xenakis sieve (5&311), or an Audacity frequency-analysis file (import) all may be provided. Pitches may be specified by letter name (psName), pitch space (psReal), pitch class, MIDI note number, or frequency. Pitch letter names may be specified as follows: a sharp is represented as "#"; a flat is represented as "$"; a quarter sharp is represented as "~"; multiple sharps, quarter sharps, and flats are valid. www.flexatone.net /athenaSCv.html   (419 words)

Tritone Paradox and Spectral-Motion AfterEffects If you were to envision the 12 chromatic pitches in series as the numbers on the face of a clock, pairs in which the first member is in the upper half of the clock will result in more descending perceptions, and those in the bottom with more ascending perceptions. Pitch classes at the top or bottom of "the clock" are the least ambiguous. This may indicate that the orientation of the pitch class circle is malleable, and changes to match a prevalent mode within a geographical area. www.cameron.edu /~lloydd/webdoc1.html   (1517 words)

FCD pitch control functions A pitch is represented as an integer part, which represents the octave number, where 8 shall be the octave containing middle C (C4); plus a fractional part, which represents the pitch-class, where.00 shall be C,.01 shall be C#,.02 shall be D, and so forth. A pitch is represented as an integer part, which represents the octave number, where 8 shall be the octave containing middle C (C4); plus a fractional part, which represents a fraction of an octave, where each step of 0.16667 represents a semitone. A pitch is represented as an integer number of semitones from the bottom of the piano keyboard, where 60 shall be middle C (C4). sound.media.mit.edu /mpeg4/FCDpitch.htm   (1179 words)

Pitch class In music and music theory a pitch class contains all notess that have the same name; for example, all Es, no matter which octave they are in, are in the same pitch class. In musical set theory it is more accurate to say that a pitch class is an equivalence class of all pitcheses that are octaves apart, which would be labeled by an integer, not a traditional letter name. In both cases, when "pitch class" is used, the use of "pitch" indicates a specific frequency or note and does not include its octaves. www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pi/pitch_class.html   (177 words)

Twentieth Century Pitch Theory: In much twentieth century music, by contrast, the spelling of a pitch is a matter of convenience; functional differences between enharmonically equivalent pitches such as those found in tonal music may be lacking completely. All B-flats in all octaves are members of the same pitch class; A-sharp and B-flat are members of the same pitch class. Pitch Class Collection (or Pitch Class Set) -- a group of pitch classes, considered without regard to their order or to duplication of content. www.lsu.edu /faculty/jperry/virtual_textbook/20th_c_pitch_theory.htm   (657 words)

Theory on the Web - Definitions A triad is a chord consisting of three pitch classes that form two stacked thirds, and is the basis of tonal harmony. Pitches that are not consonant are refered to as dissonant. Pitches in an octave equivelance have the same pitch class name, and when sounded together are perceived as the same pitch class. www.smu.edu /totw/def.htm   (3141 words)

§ 27. frequency / pitch / pitch class. 4. Science Terms. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996 Typical pitch standards in Western music assign a given frequency to one of the twelve notes in an octave: C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, and another symbol to indicate the relative position of the octave. The pitch class of a sound is determined only by its note assignment and not by the octave in which the note occurs. In acoustics, a unit of pitch called the mel (from melody) has a dependence on the frequency and the intensity at which a note is heard. www.bartleby.com /64/C004/027.html   (0 words)

Amateur Softball Association of America Adult: For a listing of qualifications and procedures for ASA adult National Qualifiers, see the ASA Code, Article 206 E. Youth: One national qualifier per region in each age group in Girls' Class A Fast Pitch, Girls' Class A Slow Pitch, and Girls' 18-Under Gold Fast Pitch. Youth: The ASA shall conduct one National Tournament in each age classification in Girls Class A Fast Pitch. Adult: The ASA shall conduct two National Championship Finals in Men's and Women's Class A, B, C and D Slow Pitch. www.asasoftball.com /about/boundary_breakdown.asp   (176 words)

SONIC ARTS - Nick Collins : Uniqueness of pitch class spaces, minimal bases and Z partners It subsumes the Z pairings with respect to Forte’s interval vector in the 12 note chromatic pitch class space with inversion The synonyms above all refer to a set class whose representatives are of cardinality M. The cardinality of the set class itself is not the same as the cardinality of its members. This definition holds separately for sets and set classes, though the case of set classes is naturally inferred. www.sonic.mdx.ac.uk /research/nickpitch.html   (4971 words)

PCT Paradigms and Quotients A third assumption upon which the analytic procedure is based is that the frequency of a pitch class in a PC string is a defining linear characteristic of the melody from which that string is derived. Secondly, the pitch classes of the tonic triad emerge in sharp relief as represented by the longer durational symbols of whole, half, and quarter notes. Finally, the fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-class pitch classes (symbolized by eighth-, sixteenth-, and thirty-second notes in the paradigms of Example 3) suggest a second harmonic structure that is expanded in the melody: an E minor triad. www.eunomios.org /contrib/collaros1/collaros1.html   (7004 words)

Computer Pitch Techniques Indeed many interesting types of pitch organization are realizable only with the aid of a computer due to their complexity, level of abstraction, or amount of calculation required. If a certain target pitch set is used as the fitness measurement for offspring in an evolving population, and pitches and chords are continually chosen from the existing population, then over time, this creates a gradual modulation from one type of population (one harmonic setting) to another. The pitch class set in use at any given instant is determined by what pitch classes are present (vertically) as one moves from left to right (from C to A-flat). music.arts.uci.edu /dobrian/pitchtechniques.htm   (2201 words)

[Smt-talk] Pitch-class dogmas Pitch-classes result from a property of the intervals between pitches related by octave multiples, as we hear them, but it is a very strange and extremely fragile property, one that is extremely easy to deconstruct (to cancel). Having reliable images of these pitches, they quickly acquire a sense of octave equivalence as a necessary operating procedure in our culture, on the same basis as does everyone else, and generalize their memories of pitches to memories of octave classes. Pitch is linear but it does not flow, in and of itself, from lower to higher, or in the other direction. societymusictheory.org /pipermail/smt-talk/2005-August/002612.html   (1679 words)

Science Fair Projects - Pitch class In music and music theory a pitch class contains all notes that have the same name; for example, all Es, no matter which octave they are in, are in the same pitch class. In musical set theory it is more accurate to say that a pitch class is an equivalence class of all pitches that are octaves apart, which would be labeled by an integer, not a traditional letter name. If one only knows the pitch interval, ip, between two pitches, one may use this definition: A pitch class is the set of all pitches such that for any two members of the set x and y: www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Pitch_classes   (320 words)

Fade In Online While you may think you're attending a pitch festival, you may be confronted with two days of class sessions and only one to three meetings over the course of three hours or, worse: three days promised of pitching only to be met with three hours a day of pitching over three days. If your pitch excites the rep, they'll ask to see a copy of the script or have you come into their respective offices to pitch it to the entire company. Pitching just one project allows you to present a well-thought out pitch while allowing time for feedback from the industry rep you're pitching to. www.fadeinonline.com /Contests/pitchfest_faq.html   (1859 words)

SET THEORY, Part 2 Pitch Class Numbers In the dodecatonic scale (the chromatic scale), each pitch class can be assigned a number from 0 through 11 to indicate its position in the chromatic octave. The initial pitch is numbered 0 and serves as a reference for the numbering of the other pitches. Pitch class numbers were assigned to the notes, using C as Ø. jan.ucc.nau.edu /~krr2/settheory/settheory2.html   (1680 words)

Theory on the Web - Pitch All sounds that are perceived as being the same pitch have the same audio frequency whether played on a guitar, piano or sung. To write a pitch that is above or below the five lines of the staff, we can either add a temporary extension called a ledger line or change to a new clef that includes the pitch. The relationship between pitches that "overlap" and occur on the same piano key is called an enharmonic relationship. www.smu.edu /totw/pitch.htm   (823 words)

TWELVE-TONE COMPOSITION, Part One The pitches are numbered according to their position in the chromatic scale beginning on E. E is numbered 0 because it is the first note of the row or the reference pitch. The first pitch of the original is the last pitch of the retrograde, thus, the reference pitch of the retrograde and the retrograde inversion forms is always the last note. The pitch class number in any square is the sum of the numbers at the beginning of its row and the top of its column. jan.ucc.nau.edu /~krr2/12tone/12tone1.html   (1797 words)

post tonal Terms Pitch class: pitches with the same note name (pitch class A is A in any register) This can not be notated because it refers to all pitches with this name Count from one pitch class to the other by the shortest route possible, whether this is up or down. Similar to pitch classes, each interval class incorporates a number of individual pitch intervals that are considered equivalent: compound intervals (larger than an octave) are considered to be equivalent to their corresponding interval within the octave and intervals larger than 6 (tritone) are considered equivalent to their inversion within the octave. www.music.iastate.edu /Courses/337/PostTonalTerms.html   (808 words)

Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Staffs, Clefs & Pitch Notation The clef establishes the pitch of the note on one particular line of the staff and thereby fixes the pitch of all the other notes lying on, or related to, the same staff. In integer notation, or the integer model of pitch, all pitch classes and intervals between pitch classes are designated using the numbers 0 through 11. Pitch classes can be notated in this way by assigning the number 0 to some note - C natural by convention - and assigning consecutive integers to consecutive semitones; so if 0 is C natural, 1 is C sharp, 2 is D natural and so on up to 11 which is B natural. www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory1.htm   (5664 words)

The Classical Pitch class Dictonary Page on Classic Cat A pitch class is the set of pitches that have the same note name, e.g. Human pitch-perception is periodic: pitches separated by a whole number of octaves are perceived as having a similar "quality" or "color." Psychologists refer to the quality of a pitch as its "chroma"; the music theorists use the term "pitch class" instead. To represent pitch classes, we need to identify or "glue together" all pitches belonging to the same pitch class—i.e. all numbers p and p + 12. www.classiccat.net /dictionary/pitch_class.htm   (863 words)

Pitch Classes, Serial Music Lesson   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Pitch class numbers from 0 to 11 are used to refer to these pitch classes. A chromatic scale beginning on this pitch assigns each of the remaining 11 pitches to a specific pitch class number for that piece. In the notation of serial music, an accidental applies only to the pitch which immediately follows and not to subsequent occurences of that pitch within the measure - a departure from traditional notation. www.wsu.edu /~dpalmen/mathlessons/html/serialmusic/pitchClass.html   (174 words)

Pitch class - Definition, explanation In music and music theory a pitch class contains all notess that have the same name; for example, all Es, no matter which octave they are in, are in the same pitch class. In musical set theory it is more accurate to say that a pitch class is an equivalence class of all pitcheses that are octaves apart, which would be labeled by an integer, not a traditional letter name. In both cases, when "pitch class" is used, the use of "pitch" indicates a specific frequency or note and does not include its octaves. www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pi/pitch_class.php   (183 words)

All About Musical Set Theory Keep in mind that sets and set classes determined pitch content only; the composers remained free to fashion all other aspects of the music according to their artistic desires (at least until super-serialism, a philosophy of subjecting every aspect of the music to serial techniques, came into fashion in the 1950s). Pitch sets can be put into Normal Form, which is an ordering of the pitches in the set which is deemed the most "compact." Compact ordering means that the largest of the intervals between any two consecutive pitches is between the first and last pitch listed. There is one occurence of interval class 1 (between the 2 and the 3), one occurence of interval class 6 (between the 3 and the 9) and one occurence of interval class 5 (between the 2 and the 9). www.jaytomlin.com /music/settheory/help.html   (2147 words)

233ass The pitch aspect of atonal music requires a new vocabulary if the analysis of this music is ever to be more descriptive. Pitches on either side of the "inversion clock" are equivalent, e.g. Pitch classes that are spelled differently are still considered equally, e.g. www.sfsu.edu /~music/csg/420/420pc-sets.html   (1312 words)

Humdrum Toolkit User's Guide -- Chapter 34 Set forms are insensitive to transposition, pitch-inversion, and pitch spelling so all major and minor triads are identified as pitch-class set 3-11. If any pitch is sustained, pcset won't know that some null tokens indicate sustained pitch activity. In set-theory analyses, there are many other important ways of "segmenting" the musical pitches into pitch-class sets. www.musicog.ohio-state.edu /Humdrum/guide34.html   (2228 words)

What Is "The Matrix"? The term "pitch class" (abbreviated "pc") employs the notion of octave equivalence and refers to any member of the set of pitches of the same "name" (i.e. So in the case of inversional equivalence, the equivalence will be assumed for the purposes of identifying pc sets by their equivalence classes, but it may often be more useful to distinguish between a sonority and its inversion. The analysis of music based on parsing melodies and chords into these small collections of pitch classes is useful in non-functional music where no serial process is involved, and also it can be useful in analyzing the construction of a particular tone row and the atonal results of its use in a complex work. www.robertkelleyphd.com /12-tone.htm   (3502 words)

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