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For example:
A stretched rubber band can vibrate, but the sound It thus produces
cannot be heard
A strumming of a guitar, its strings must be stretched across a wooden
box which throws back and amplifies the vibration is called resonator
Pitch
Pitch refers to the relative highness or lowness of a tone.
it is the result of the frequency of vibration:
the faster the vibrations (the higher the frequency), the higher the
pitch
Because of pitch, it is possible to contract musical scales.
A scale is a series of different tones which are arrange at
definite, fixed distances (called intervals) from one another.
For example
theres is a dog whistle
which when it blown, will be heard by the dogs but
not humans, because the vibration it set forth are
too fast to be perceived by the human ear.
This tones may moved in an ascending order, from tones of lower pitch to
higher ones, or descending order, from higher to lower, in a same way of
goes up and down a staircase.
In the C major scale for example first note being C or do we find the
semi-tone intervals between E(mi) and F(fa) and between E(mi) and then
between D(re) and E(mi) and between G(sol) and A(la) thus, instead of
pressing the white key for mi, we press the black key after re instead.
Some other scale pattern are the Chromatic scale, the whole-tone scale,
and the pentatonic scale.
Intensity
Refers to the loudness or softness of a sound, this quality result from the
pressure or force which is used to cause, the vibration that produced a
sound.
The degree of loudness or softness in music is referred to as dynamics the
composer indicates how loudly or how softly the notes are to be played
by Italian words like forte(loudly),
fortissimo(very loudly), piano(softly), and pianissimo(very softly).