Musical Terms Defined

 DEFINITION OF MUSICAL TERMS

 

*Octave:* This is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes one having twice or half the frequency or vibration of the other.

*Triad:* This is a group or set of three notes connected together.

*Note:* This is a single tone of definite pitch made by a musical instrument, the human voice, animal or an object when rubbed on a surface or blown by the wind.

There is a written sign representing the pitch and duration of such sounds like the keys of a piano or similar instrument.

*Tone:* This is a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch quality and strength. It is an interval of a major second. A sound with distinctive quality.

*Tune:* This is a series of musical notes that make a simple melody.

*Semitone:* This is half a tone; the smallest distance from a tone.

Though there is *microtone* which is the actual shortest distance between two notes in sound (to be discussed some other time)

*Chord:* This is a group of notes (usually three or more) sounded together in harmony. It is harmonious and heard as if sounding simultaneously.

_Elmond Isaiah_

@TMS