What is an octave? - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
2018年3月30日 · First: Octave literally means a series of Eight, from the Latin octo - eight. The term's musical use reflects that. You may be confused because in our music, we use the term Octave in two different ways. As a scale, and as an interval: One definition of Octave is a scale. This scale is an ordered collection of notes, iterating through the 8 ...
theory - Why are there twelve notes in an octave? - Music: Practice ...
2011年4月26日 · That is because the number 12 is divisible by more small numbers than any other number less than 60. It is divisible by 1,2,3,4,and 6. The number 60 would allow more pleasing combinations (1,2,3,4,and 5), but it would be ridiculous to divide an octave into 60 intervals. So in modern western music they use 12 intervals.
guitar - What do the terms E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4 actually mean?
2015年5月29日 · But if you want to tell someone the exact octave of a note, you can use the aforementioned numbers. So, being thorough, the exact standard tuning of the guitar is the one you mentioned, which is: E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4. Αs it has been mentioned in the comments, the guitar music is written one octave above than it's played.
sheet music - Is "16va" proper notation? - Music: Practice
Because pitch measurement systems (linear and logarithmic) are derived from the octave as 2:1, a double octave represented as 16va (16:8 = 2:1) is a notation evolution surpassing music theory symbols based on an outdated, extended modal scale series, like 15ma. In this way, the tradition of describing an octave as '8' (as in 8va) remains, while ...
Was the term "octave" coined after the development of early …
2020年10月28日 · It seems to me that the term "octave" refers to these 8 notes within the 12 note system, and was used in retrospect after some music theory was already in the making (during definition and use of the ionian major scale -I know modes …
How many notes are in an octave in Indian classical music? Is it 7, …
2021年12月24日 · Finally, all of the above is just about North Indian or Hindustani classical music. South Indian or Carnatic classical music has a different way of dividing the octave into notes. In Carnatic music too there are seven notes, 12 swarasthaanas, and 22 shrutis, but Re, Ga, Dha, and Ni are considered to have three versions each, not two.
terminology - Why is a doubling of frequency called an octave?
2020年4月18日 · Hexatonic (6 notes per octave): common in Western folk music. Pentatonic (5 notes per octave): the anhemitonic form (lacking semitones) is common in folk music, especially in Asian music; also known as the "black note" scale. Tetratonic (4 notes), tritonic (3 notes), and ditonic (2 notes): generally limited to prehistoric ("primitive") music
piano - How to know which is a suitable octave? - Music: Practice ...
2016年4月28日 · 4. Standard sheet music specifies the octaves quite precisely. The lowest line in the treble clef, for example, is E4 (the E in the fourth octave): Ledger lines can also be added above and below the staves to extend their range, and you might sometimes see 8va written above or below certain notes to indicate that they should be played an octave ...
Why is guitar music written one octave higher?
2023年3月12日 · As to the original question, I think it was answered somewhere in there. But there was a lot of convoluted speculation about the issue. The rule is simple: the actual pitch intended is to be written higher (so it sounds an octave lower) on the treble staff with the guitar's open, low E string in the space below the third (F) ledger line.
Correct octave technique - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
2015年8月4日 · For example start at the lowest C octave with the left hand and play in octaves C E (up a third) C G (up a fifth) C C (up an octave) C E (up a tenth) etc till you are jumping the from the bottom C octave to the top C. Play the octaves staccato, and make sure your hand and wrist relaxes between each octave.