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    Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance. Concert pitch may vary from ensemble to ensemble...
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  • York and Boston orchestras had used this higher pitch for years. A440 is widely used as concert pitch in the United Kingdom and the United States. In...
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  • media help. Scientific pitch, also known as philosophical pitch, Sauveur pitch or Verdi tuning, is an absolute concert pitch standard which is based...
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    instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). For...
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  • regardless of their relation to concert pitch (A = 440 Hz) Correctly sing a melody by following musical notation, by pitching each note in the melody according...
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    pitch, but sounds of indefinite pitch do not neatly correspond to any specific pitch. A pitch standard (also concert pitch) is the conventional pitch...
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  • and following song "Concert Pitch" "deliriously upbeat confections". Sarah H. Grant of Consequence of Sound likened "Concert Pitch" to a "dance-floor tantrum...
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    Scientific pitch notation (SPN), also known as American standard pitch notation (ASPN) and international pitch notation (IPN), is a method of specifying...
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  • Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone....
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  • prevailing key. Historically, concert pitch has varied. For an instrument in equal temperament tuned to the A440 pitch standard widely adopted in 1939...
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    the octave is generally written at the transposed pitch, but is sometimes seen written at concert pitch using an octave clef. This section shows a complete...
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  • write music notation transposed relative to concert pitch. Transposing instrument Macpherson, Ewan. "The Pitch and Scale of the Great Highland Bagpipe"....
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    Scale and pitch The standard pitch has varied widely over history, and this has affected how flutes are made. Although the standard concert pitch today is...
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    in the concert pitch ( C ) a minor third higher than the written pitch; therefore, to get the sounding pitch one must transpose the written pitch up a minor...
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    band had performed live in concert pitch. They began tuning down either a half step or full step as well as concert pitch. Sometimes all three tunings...
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    compose music for concert band. Wind instruments at that time were often difficult to play in tune and had difficulty in switching pitch and rhythm fast...
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    cycles per second). This is not far from the pitch of the C two octaves below 440 Hz, which (when concert pitch is set at A = 440 Hz) is 65.4 Hz. The discrepancy...
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    Trombone (category Continuous pitch instruments)
    instruments, reading at concert pitch in bass clef, with higher notes sometimes being notated in tenor clef. They are pitched in B♭, an octave below the...
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    which exist in pitches ranging from D through D♭, C, and B down to B♭. Pipemakers before the Taylors had, however, built concert pitch pipes using the...
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    Tenor horn (category Concert band instruments)
    sixth above concert pitch: the tenor horn notation for middle C represents the E♭ below middle C in concert pitch (E♭3 in scientific pitch notation). The...
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  • following is a list of E♭ instruments, or instruments for which the concert pitch of E♭ is notated as C in standard terminology. They are listed by the...
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  • builders and players Diapason normal, the official French standard of concert pitch Diapason, a 1978 novel by Thomas Sullivan Tuning fork (diapason in Italian...
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    playing this file? See media help. Sound of an ocarina An E major (in concert pitch) scale, followed by a rendition of Frère Jacques. This is a six-hole...
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    with a valve in F. All these instruments are notated in bass clef at concert pitch. The bass tuba is commonly available in F and E♭, while contrabass tubas...
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    of a G6, i.e. the G in altissimo above high C, or 1568 Hz by modern concert pitch – according to the Guinness Book of Records, the highest musical note...
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    specific pitch (see Helmholtz resonator) Covering holes lowers the pitch; uncovering holes raises the pitch Blowing more softly lowers the pitch; blowing...
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  • tends to have pitches with simpler mathematical ratios to each other. Western music defines pitches around a central reference "concert pitch" of A4, currently...
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    above middle-C) for a total of 4.5 octaves. The lowest bell is an F♯ concert pitch, and weighs 13,400 pounds.[1] Each bell is engraved with the year it...
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    smaller piano receives a greater stretch relative to the fundamental pitch, only the concert grand's octaves can be fully widened so that triple octaves are...
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    Baritone saxophone (category Concert band instruments)
    like the tenor saxophone to read concert pitch tenor clef. The baritone saxophone is used as a standard member of concert bands and saxophone quartets. It...
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