When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Klangfarbenmelodie - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klangfarbenmelodie

    In its original sense, Schoenberg envisioned klangfarbenmelodie as a sequence of tone colors. There could be just one pitch, but the changing timbres are what create the semblance of melody. [4] Because Schoenberg never clearly defined the term, it was widely misunderstood. [5] There remains no clear definition of the term. [6]: 142

  3. Timbre - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre

    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_music_terminology

    Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [2] [3] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)

  5. Diatonic and chromatic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_and_chromatic

    The term cromatico (Italian) was occasionally used in the medieval and Renaissance periods to refer to the coloration (Latin coloratio) of certain notes.The details vary widely by period and place, but generally the addition of a colour (often red) to an empty or filled head of a note, or the "colouring in" of an otherwise empty head of a note, shortens the duration of the note.

  6. Harmonic series (music) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)

    For example, a perfect fifth, say 200 and 300 Hz (cycles per second), causes a listener to perceive a combination tone of 100 Hz (the difference between 300 Hz and 200 Hz); that is, an octave below the lower (actual sounding) note. This 100 Hz first-order combination tone then interacts with both notes of the interval to produce second-order ...

  7. Musical tone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tone

    The notes used in music can be more complex than musical tones, as they may include aperiodic aspects, such as attack transients, vibrato, and envelope modulation. A simple tone, or pure tone, has a sinusoidal waveform. A complex tone is a combination of two or more pure tones that have a periodic pattern of repetition, unless specified otherwise.

  8. Word painting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_painting

    Each repetition of "rise" is a semitone higher than the last, making this an especially overt example of word-painting. [7] "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen includes another example of word painting. In the line "It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah," the lyrics signify ...

  9. Color (medieval music) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_(medieval_music)

    It is indicated by literally coloring the note-heads in the written music differently than their normal appearance. In the 14th and early 15th century, colored notes were typically marked in red while normal notes were black; in the 16th century, the same effect was achieved by filling the note-heads in black while normal notes were hollow.