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pitch
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perceptual property in music ordering sounds from low to high
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- wave
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- Frequenz-Halbton-Oktave-4.svg
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- Commons category
- Pitch (music)
- topic's main category
- Category:Pitch (music)
- has characteristic
- fundamental frequency
- different from
- loudness
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Encyclopedic overview
In musical notation, the different vertical positions of notes indicate different pitches. Play top: Play bottom:
Pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies. Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale. Pitch is a major auditory attribute of musical tones, along with duration, loudness, and timbre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pitch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.