Musical Building Blocks: Pitch and Timbre.

Focus on two processes that are fundamental to musicality: the perception of pitch and timbre. Pitch allows us to order sounds from low to high. Timbre lets us distinguish two sounds with the same pitch, loudness, and duration. Both pitch and timbre are constructed by the brain and have deep evoluti...

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Corporate Authors: Great Courses (Firm),$4dst, Kanopy (Firm),$4dst
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses, 2015.
Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
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Summary:Focus on two processes that are fundamental to musicality: the perception of pitch and timbre. Pitch allows us to order sounds from low to high. Timbre lets us distinguish two sounds with the same pitch, loudness, and duration. Both pitch and timbre are constructed by the brain and have deep evolutionary roots..
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