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 ...

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

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.

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.

The first known usage of "octave" in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary: The earliest known use of the word octave is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for octave is from around 1570, in Art of Music [author not given]. Regarding etymology: octave is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin octava, octāva, octāvus.

2013年2月3日 · A parallel octave refers only to two consecutive notes! Octave doubling If you have two or more instruments that are intentionally arranged to play the same voice (in unison or) one or more octaves apart, then you have octave doubling, which gives you a fat sound. Octave doubling refers to longer passages of music; most likely at least a full ...

2018年10月24日 · The term "octave" originated in the west, so it should be no surprise that it's based on features of western music. And the diatonic scale really is central in western music, as evidenced by the fact that a piano has eight white keys in an octave, and the notes are named by seven different letters, modified by sharps and flats (with the eighth ...

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.

2024年7月23日 · An octave or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency. Learn more… Top users

2011年4月26日 · Well the octave represents a doubling / halving of hertz (cycles per second). So, midi middle C is 256 hz, and if you know your computer numbers, you'll realise that the next octave C's are at 512, 1024, 2048, etc and the lower octaves are at 128, 64, and (pimp your ride) 32. Earthquakes, by the way, show up at around 11 hertz.