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Ear training. In music, ear training is the study and practice in which musicians learn various aural skills to detect and identify pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, solfeges, and other basic elements of music, solely by hearing. Someone who can identify pitch accurately without any context is said to have perfect pitch, while ...
Chroma feature. (a) Musical score of a C-major scale. (b) Chromagram obtained from the score. (c) Audio recording of the C-major scale played on a piano. (d) Chromagram obtained from the audio recording. In Western music, the term chroma feature or chromagram closely relates to twelve different pitch classes.
Harmonic pitch class profiles. Harmonic pitch class profiles (HPCP) is a group of features that a computer program extracts from an audio signal, based on a pitch class profile —a descriptor proposed in the context of a chord recognition system. [1] HPCP are an enhanced pitch distribution feature that are sequences of feature vectors that, to ...
In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. [1] An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody, and vertical or harmonic if it pertains to simultaneously sounding tones, such as in a chord. [2][3] In Western music ...
Root (chord) Root, in red, of a C major chord (Play ⓘ). The root is doubled at the octave. Root notes (blue) and bass notes (red, both=purple) from an 18th-century Chorale Play ⓘ. In the music theory of harmony, the root is a specific note that names and typifies a given chord. Chords are often spoken about in terms of their root, their ...
A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. Prototypical tone clusters are based on the chromatic scale and are separated by semitones. For instance, three adjacent piano keys (such as C, C ♯, and D) struck simultaneously produce a tone cluster. Variants of the tone cluster include chords comprising ...
This is the beginning of the Prelude from the Suite for Lute in G minor, BWV 995 (transcription of Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011). Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given ...
The English word chord derives from Middle English cord, a back-formation of accord [4] in the original sense of agreement and later, harmonious sound. [5] A sequence of chords is known as a chord progression or harmonic progression. These are frequently used in Western music. [6]