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Music notes are made of sound (evenly-spaced) waves. To measure how high or low a sound is, musicians use the note's pitch instead of frequency. Notes are also named, e.g., musicians call the note with frequency "440 vibrations per second" an "A". | Music notes are made of sound (evenly-spaced) waves. To measure how high or low a sound is, musicians use the note's pitch instead of frequency. Notes are also named, e.g., musicians call the note with frequency "440 vibrations per second" an "A". | ||
| − | '''Octave''': any note that is twice the frequency of another note is one octave higher. | + | '''Octave''': any note that is twice the frequency of another note is one octave higher. Notes that are one octave apart (higher or lower) are of the same name. |
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[[Category:Basic Music Theory]] | [[Category:Basic Music Theory]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:48, 20 January 2009
Music notes are made of sound (evenly-spaced) waves. To measure how high or low a sound is, musicians use the note's pitch instead of frequency. Notes are also named, e.g., musicians call the note with frequency "440 vibrations per second" an "A".
Octave: any note that is twice the frequency of another note is one octave higher. Notes that are one octave apart (higher or lower) are of the same name.
