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  Pitch (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pitch is something perceived by the human ear, as opposed to frequency, the physical measurement of vibration.
Pitches may be described in various ways, including high or low, as discrete or indiscrete, pitch that changes with time (chirping) and the manner in which this change with time occurs: gliding; portamento; or vibrato, and as determinate or indeterminate.
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).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitch_(music)   (1923 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Pitch (music) [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Pitches may be described in various ways, including high or low, as discrete or indiscrete, gliding or portamento, and as determinate or indeterminate.
Pitch is often measured by frequency or wavelength, but is most often discussed either through notation and the accompanying letter labels (C#).
In atonal, twelve tone, or set theory a "pitch" is a specific frequency while a pitch class is all the octaves of a frequency.
encyclozine.com /Pitch_(music)   (1909 words)

  
 Pitch and Timbre: Definition, Meaning and Use
The pitch of periodically interrupted noise (Miller and Taylor 1948), the (missing fundamental) pitch of temporally sequential successive harmonics (Hall and Peters 1981), and binaural edge pitch (Klein and Hartmann 1981) were all identified and measured by means of discrimination or matching experiments, where only ordinal properties of the sensation play a role.
Although pitch space is a continuum, it is, at least in Western music, treated as a collection of steps, where pitch intervals correspond to certain well-defined frequency ratios.
In speech, a pitch contour is a rather continuous melody-like pattern that is evoked by vowels and voiced consonants, and is directly related to the vibration rate of the vocal cords.
www.zainea.com /pitchtimbre.htm   (3283 words)

  
 Trip Reports from SCMA Members
Later that day we studied the route and determined that the 7th and 8th pitch of Space was on the ground.
Pitch 23 was special because it was beaks and heads for 40ft off the belay and its called old A3.
With a rope from the fourth pitch the pendulum swing from the alcove exceeded a 165' rope (that means it is very steep).
www.rockclimbing.org /tripreports/southseas.htm   (1265 words)

  
 lecture 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The perception of pitch and the idea of a note Pitch is a percept which is related to the frequency of vibrating bodies.
Pitches which are are octave equivalent are said to be in the same pitch class.
Tonal space moves beyond the scale and specifies a hierarchy, certain pitches are more important than other pitches and this comes about by the frequency of their use.
ccrma-www.stanford.edu /~pchordia/fiam/lecture1.htm   (624 words)

  
 ESCOM
The proposed theory is an expansion of Fred Lerdahl's tonal pitch space model; its purpose is a more accurate description of the situations involved in the analysis of diatonic modal music.
Apart from the calculation of the pitch and the chordal and regional space algebraic representations, geometrical representations of all three levels of the modal pitch space are also included.
The described space and the distances that can be measured in it are precompositional ; the functional constraints that may rule displacements in the space are not really considered because they do not belong to the level of the immanent system.
musicweb.hmt-hannover.de /escom/MusicSc/MS7v1/MS7v1En.htm   (1199 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Pitch (vertical space)
A pitch is a significant underground vertical space in mining terminology.
The name is thought to have originated through the description of deep shafts which had bottoms that could not be easily seen as being "pitch-fl".
The deepest pitch so far discovered underground is 603 m in Vrtoglavica cave in the Julian Alps in Slovenia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pitch-(vertical-space)   (221 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Pitch-space
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 music, a register is the relative height or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument or group of instruments.
In music theory, the circle of fifths is a model of pitch space and is the series encompassing all of the notes in the equally tempered chromatic scale.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pitch_space   (1626 words)

  
 SetClass Commands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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.
Pitch space values (as well as pitch class) place C4 at 0.0.
www.flexatone.net /athenaDocs/www/scgroup.htm   (627 words)

  
 Some Non-Isomorphisms
M/T space is a rooted tree, and even if we acknowledge Lerdahl's concerns regarding the role of a tonic in generating a tonal space, the root of a rooted tree is not the same as a tonic in tonal space.
In contrast, changing tempos does change the number of edges and vertices in the graph of tonal space, as well as the relationships amongst them, for example, as higher levels of subdivision that are vertices of degree 3 at slower tempos lose edges (and hence change degree) as the tempo increases.
We also are reminded of how the topologies of both M/T space and PC space--the metric tree and the tonal tonnetz--arise from the combination of formal relationships among their component elements as well as the way human beings hear and understand those relationships.
www.people.carleton.edu /~jlondon/some_non-isomorphisms.htm   (3381 words)

  
 Piers Hugill, Three Texts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Or the space is extended in length, or perhaps it is very limited in extension, or maybe it is extended in the noise, or the white, or the blood.
Or the blood is above the space, or it is below, and perhaps it is extended in space, or in pitch.
Perhaps the pitch is red, or long, or it is between the space and the noise.
www.greatworks.org.uk /poems/ph4.html   (386 words)

  
 Pitch space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In music pitch space is pitch relations, ie nearness or farness,represented through geometric models, most often multi dimensional.
Modulatory space is the pitch space within which modulation ispossible.
The circle of fifths is one representation of pitch space, firstproposed geometrically (see: Pythagoras) by Johann DavidHeinichen (1728), though he included the relative minor (thus the circle clockwise would read C, a, G, e...) (Lerdahl, 2001).The current major on the outside relative minor on the inside format was proposed by David Kellner (1737).
www.therfcc.org /pitch-space-71461.html   (477 words)

  
 Re: Req: pitch-to-physical space mappings, refs (Sean Ferguson )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Some would insist >that this was the best descriptor even after I called their attention to >pitch space having "high" and "low" attributes.
If the result of the question you describe is that the subjects are saying that the English horn is higher than the oboe on the same pitch then it is a result of the relative range of the instruments.
Although their registers are closer than those of the male and female voice (only a perfect 5th difference) perhaps with the oboe and English horn the same judgement is made by analogy, since the same pitch will be higher in the range of the English horn than the oboe.
www.auditory.org /postings/1997/82.html   (359 words)

  
 Pitch Space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
What in fact Lerdahl goes on to propose is a complementary pitch space that has a reductional rather than a geometric format.
Levels of pitch space must be sufficiently available from musical surfaces to be internalized.
A reductionally organized pitch space is needed to express the steps and skips by which cognitive distance is measured and to express degrees of melodic completeness.
eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~kov/lerdahl/PitchSpace.html   (253 words)

  
 Pitch space -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
For twelve tone (The division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitones) equal temperament, this includes only the twelve (Click link for more info and facts about pitch class) pitch classes.
The use of a (Framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal) lattice was first proposed by Euler (1739) to model just intonation using an (A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions) axis of perfect fifths and another of major thirds (Lerdahl, 2001).
The (Click link for more info and facts about matrices) matrices used in the (Click link for more info and facts about twelve tone technique) twelve tone technique are not representations of pitch space as nearness nor farness is not indicated, or even possible since one may not move freely about.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pitch_space.htm   (672 words)

  
 Pitch Black
A group of marooned space travelers struggle for survival on a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world.
Vin Diesel is cast as a convicted killer who has to win the trust of his fellow castaways and ultimately leads the group against the planet's alien inhabitants.
Diesel is cast as a convicted killer who has to win the trust of his fellow castaways and ultimately leads the group against the planet's alien inhabitants.
www.movie-page.com /1999/PitchBlack.htm   (516 words)

  
 How Parkinson’s Disease Affects Tone Language and Tells Us about Tone Comprehension
Furthermore, the pitch range and pitch variability used in their speech was more restricted than that of normal speakers.
When only the pitches of the target words (all the six /si/s) were measured, we found that the pitch range (or the "tonal space") where the six tones fell was also more restricted in PD speech.
From this study, we know that the size of the tonal space (the pitch range where the tones fall) and the context-target pitch distance (the pitch distance between the precursor sentence and the tone in question) are two factors related to tone language speakers’ ability to understand tone.
www.acoustics.org /press/137th/wong.html   (1061 words)

  
 NASA - First Pitch From Space
The ceremonial first pitch before Game 5 of the 1995 World Series on Thursday, October 26, 1995 was thrown by Commander Ken Bowersox, onboard the space shuttle Columbia.
On the scoreboard at Jacobs Field and on the ABC broadcast, the first pitch was preceded by footage of the launch of Columbia on October 20, 1995.
We entered a trailer with a scaled model of a shuttle which was accompanied by a shuttle space suit, a special version of the NASA Insignia, and a brief audio tape featuring a set of mock calls between Columbia and Mission Control in Houston.
www.nasa.gov /centers/glenn/about/history/firstpch.html   (540 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A neighbor space is a set of characteristics describing how neighboring motion occurs during a given musical passage.
The four characteristics of any neighbor space describe its space-type (pitch or pitch-class), scalar collection, distance between neighbor notes and the notes they embellish, and the set-class construction of the embellished harmony.
The neighbor space is flexible enough to be used with a wide variety of verticalities and pitch hierarchies.
theory.esm.rochester.edu /th591/abs/silb0326.html   (224 words)

  
 RadioShack will take its pitch to space - May 2, 2001
McDonald said there was a payment made to the Russian space agency, but he would not say for how much, other than to say it is "not a huge sum," and well less than the $20 million that Tito paid the Russians to be the first tourist in space.
One of the Americans involved in negotiations for the commercials says it is ironic that the formerly communist Russian space program is more open to these kinds of commercial ventures than is the U.S. space program.
He said that even though interest in outer space isn't as great as it once was, it's a good venue for selling some of its key products, such as wireless phones and satellite television systems, as well as broadband communications.
money.cnn.com /2001/05/02/companies/space_advertising   (1113 words)

  
 Prosodic Font: Between the Spoken and the Written
A speaker uses stress, pitch, rate, pauses, voice qualities, and a host of other sound patterns not even vaguely defined to communicate a message as well as attitudes and feelings about what he is saying.
Stress is a sub-category of prominence, and is the rhythmic counterpart to intonational prominence, the pitch accent.
She specifies a set of two simple intonational pitch accents, H* (a pitch accent that first rises and then may fall) and L* (a pitch accent that falls and then may rise), that account for the variation in intonational contours with a simple dichotomy.
alumni.media.mit.edu /~tara/thesis_pf.html   (19638 words)

  
 MicroFest 2001 Conference Abstracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This paper traces the sensory, mathematical and cultural forces that influence/determine the pitch perception processes of a Western listener, finds the pitch space that represents as accurately as possible the relationships and structures promoted by these forces and then chooses a microtonal vocabulary that takes advantage of/complies with the structures of that pitch space.
Since the starting point and structural unit of this hierarchy is a JI major triad, a P5s/JIM3s pitch space appears as the best possible representation of the hierarchy of the pitch/intervallic relationships of a note with the other 11 semitone categories.
The space includes all JI tunings, at an approximation of 4 cents or less, for all intervals for all notes included in the 5 level hierarchies of all 12 possible reference notes.
www2.hmc.edu /~alves/microfestabstracts.html   (4290 words)

  
 Zilog Photo Process Engineer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A 'Space' is where material was removed in between Lines.
The 'Pitch' is the sum of a Line and Space.
The pitch is always constant whether the Line is bigger or smaller than normal.
www.micron.com /k12/math/algebra/engproc.html?print=yes   (189 words)

  
 US Field Hockey: FIH Indoor Field Hockey Rules -Technical Info
The maximum and minimum dimensions of the pitch are laid down in the Rules, but it is strongly recommended that, where the maximum size is not possible, a width of 21 meters should be provided to ensure that the circle-lines meet the back-lines before they reach the side-boards.
Boards or banners at the pitch corners or along the sides are acceptable, but must not interfere with the playing surface, sideboards, space behind the side-boards, spectators, control table or team benches.
Advertising on the pitch surface is not permitted.
www.usfieldhockey.com /hockey/indoor/in_appendE.htm   (651 words)

  
 British Airways World Traveller Economy seating analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The space provided does not offer enough legroom for the average size passenger to enjoy any hope of relaxation or proper comfort.
In design terms, the BA economy seats are satisfactory, but during tests we noted that condition of seat covers is often poor, and the seat base cushion is thin and offers too firm a base for any real comfort.
The seat recline is fairly standard for this seat pitch, and unless BA sees sense in restoring older seat pitch standards, there is little hope of change.
www.airlinequality.com /Product/BA_Y_Seat.htm   (736 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Chatterjee Group will create more than 1 million sq ft of space in the city for the IT industry over the next three years.
As per the plan, after the 18-storeyed third tower — to be built in around 14 months — TCG will set up a bigger facility with 4 lakh sq ft space in the same complex.
According to a Nasscom study, the IT industry in the country will require around 100 million sq ft of space in the next five years and will create over 1.5 million jobs.
www.telegraphindia.com /1031221/asp/calcutta/story_2702822.asp   (504 words)

  
 HobbySpace - Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) News
Space advocates should pursue a pragmatic approach that combines support for both private space efforts and for NASA while relentlessly pressuring the agency to create and implement programs that are effective in advancing space development and settlement.
Utilizing the market offered by the International Space station's requirements for cargo and crew will spur true competition in the private sector, will result in savings that can be applied elsewhere in the program, and will promote further commercial opportunities in the aerospace sector.
The budget for the Russian space program will finally get a boost, which could help with projects like the Kliper: The new frontier: The Russian space industry is finally having its budget boosted.
www.hobbyspace.com /Links/RLVNews.html   (1182 words)

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