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Notes do not have timbre, they are just named pitches (which themselves are just frequencies).
by bweitzman 10y ago
Notes do not have timbre, they are just named pitches (which themselves are just frequencies).
- rhizome 10y agoHm? If it's about how they appear on the staff, why make the distinction?
- bweitzman 10y agoThere are different ways to assign pitches to notes. What is commonly used in modern western music is called equal temperament, but there are other systems, like just intonation, for example.
- rhizome 10y agoThe pitches in alternate tuning systems like JI and maqam are sometimes, but not always, denoted with extra information. Quarter-flats, cent indicators, and so on, distinguish the note-pitch representations. While tuning systems can indeed be transposed or converted to unmodified standard (ET) staff notation, that's more of a convenience that has its own learning curve. So, in JI you wouldn't simply use 'A' to represent (e.g.) 440Hz, it might be A 4, for the "A" key (or "A" staff position) having a 4 cent difference than ET A.[1] 1. http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/example.png http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/example.p...
- triplesec 10y agoi thi in common usage 'note' could cover both your narrow meaning and his the parent comment's wider one.