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harmonic theory — noun : a postulate in phonetics: the reinforcing vibrations produced in the superglottic cavities in vowel articulation are harmonics of the fundamental vocal cord note compare formant, inharmonic theory … Useful english dictionary
Distortion (music) — Fuzzbox redirects here. For other uses, see Fuzzbox (disambiguation). Distortion (music) Boss distortion pedal Notes A well used Turbo Distortion guitar effect pedal made by Boss Distortion effects create warm , dirty and fuzzy sounds by… … Wikipedia
Timbre — Not to be confused with Timber. For the Sophie B. Hawkins album, see Timbre (album). Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar with noiseless pickups. Below is the E9 chord audio: In music, timbre ( … Wikipedia
Harmonic series (music) — Harmonic series of a string. Pitched musical instruments are often based on an approximate harmonic oscillator such as a string or a column of air, which oscillates at numerous frequencies simultaneously. At these resonant frequencies, waves… … Wikipedia
Diatonic and chromatic — Chromatic redirects here. For other uses, see Chromatic (disambiguation). Melodies may be based on a diatonic scale and maintain its tonal characteristics but contain many accidentals up to all twelve tones of the chromatic scale, such as the… … Wikipedia
Additive synthesis — is a technique of audio synthesis which creates musical timbre.The timbre of an instrument is composed of multiple harmonics or partials , in different quantities, that change over time. Additive synthesis emulates such timbres by combining… … Wikipedia
Overtone — Overtones redirects here. For other uses, see Overtones (disambiguation). An overtone is any frequency higher than the fundamental frequency of a sound. The fundamental and the overtones together are called partials. Harmonics are partials whose… … Wikipedia
Musical acoustics — or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music – how sounds employed as music work. Examples of areas of study are the function of musical instruments, the human voice (the physics of… … Wikipedia
Banded waveguide synthesis — Banded Waveguides Synthesis is a physical modeling synthesis method to simulate sounds of dispersive sounding objects, or objects with strongly inharmonic resonant frequencies efficiently. It can be used to model the sound of instruments based on … Wikipedia
Musical tuning — Open string redirects here. For the concept in string theory, see String (physics). Two differently tuned thirds: Just major third … Wikipedia
