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Pitch, melody, tonality

Rolf Bader

pp. 403-437

Pitch is a psychological phenomenon, therefore also called virtual pitch, which is related to the physical spectrum of a sound on a one dimensional interval scale. When relating pitch to frequency, a perceived tone can be associated to a frequency number. Comparing two tones can then be done by comparing the ratios of their frequencies, and we arrive at the well known harmonic relations of the octave (2:1), fifth (3:2), forth (4:3) etc.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36098-5_13

Full citation:

Bader, R. (2013). Pitch, melody, tonality, in Nonlinearities and synchronization in musical acoustics and music psychology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 403-437.

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