Timbre
April 12, 2008
Listen to the following notes. They’re the same pitch, duration and volume. Yet they’re different. One sounds like a piano, and one sounds like a violin. The technical term for this “sound quality” is timbre.
Volume
April 11, 2008
Volume is the loudness of the sound. In the following example, pitch, duration and timbre are kept the same. The only difference is that the each sound is louder than the last.
Duration
April 10, 2008
Duration refers to how long the note lasts. In the following example, the pitch, volume and timbre are kept the same. The only difference is that the notes get successively shorter.
Pitch
April 10, 2008
Pitch refers to how high or low a sound is. In the following example, the duration, volume and timbre are kept the same. The only difference between the notes is the pitch. It starts off high with each successive note being lower than the previous.
