pitch

pitch, in music, position of a single sound in the complete range of sound. Sounds are higher or lower in pitch according to the frequency of vibration of the sound waves producing them.

Pitch in music primarily refers to the relative frequency of a particular tone. A higher pitch, like a sound made by a trumpet or flute, has a higher frequency than a lower pitch, like a sound made by a double bass or cello.

The term “pitch” came about when cricket players coined “pitch the stumps”. This meant preparing the playing area for a game of cricket. Pitching, in this context, is the same as when you pitch a tent. This means you drive stakes into the ground.

Pitch is the highness or lowness of your voice, tone is the quality or mood of your voice, and volume is the loudness or softness of your voice. By varying these elements, you can create contrast, emphasis, and interest in your speech.

There are only seven letters in the musical alphabet: a, b, c, d, e, f and g. There are more than seven different pitches used in many pieces and songs, so once we get to G, we go back to A and start the cycle again.

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

The pitch of sound is measured using a unit of frequency known as hertz. Hertz measures one second of sound pitches and creates a calculated visual of the sound wave. Pitches can be defined as high-frequency when the sound wave is 880-hertz cycles in one second. A low-frequency pitch is defined as 55 hertz.

Tempo - the speed of the music - presto (fast), andante (middle), lento (slow). Pitch - how high or low the music would be. Dynamics - volume - forte (loud), piano (quiet), crescendo (getting louder), diminuendo (getting quieter).

Western music typically uses 12 notes – C, D, E, F, G, A and B, plus five flats and equivalent sharps in between, which are: C sharp/D flat (they're the same note, just named differently depending on what key signature is being used), D sharp/E flat, F sharp/G flat, G sharp/A flat and A sharp/B flat.

In the work of Trager and Smith there are four contrastive levels of pitch: low (1), middle (2), high (3), and very high (4). (The important work of Kenneth Pike on the same subject had the four pitch levels labelled in the opposite way, with (1) being high and (4) being low).

Some common synonyms of pitch are cast, fling, hurl, sling, throw, and toss. While all these words mean "to cause to move swiftly through space by a propulsive movement or a propelling force," pitch suggests throwing carefully at a target.

Pitch is the term that musicians use for describing how high or how low a note is. Physicists would describe this element as frequency and measure it in cycles per second, or hertz. Rhythm refers to music's temporal structure, how long or short notes are and how they are stressed.