Music Terminology

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Front Pulsatile
Back a consistent beat, but no recurring pattern of accented beats.
Tags Time
Front TEMPERAMENT
Back Temperament has to do with the precise tuning of the pitches in a scale, the exact frequency at which each pitch vibrates. The Greeks discovered that a mathematical relationship exists between pitches: If you divide a string on an instrument in two, it produces the same note, but an octave higher (e.g C-C). Dividing it in three gives you the fifth degree of the scale (e.g. C-G), and dividing it in five gives you the third degree of the scale (e.g. C-E). In this way you can eventually determine all of the notes of the scale.
Tags Pitch
Front Scale
Back The group of pitches that make up one octave. Scales in some cultures only contain a few notes. A piano can play up to 12 notes in one octave, but the most common western scales, the major and minor scales, contain 7 pitches.
Tags Pitch
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