Pitch Classes

 





Week 2


Introduction to Pitch Class






  • Pitches are individual tones with individual frequencies. The concept of pitch, then, does not imply octave equivalence. C4 is a pitch, and it is not the same pitch as C3. The same goes for D4 and D3, E2 and E1 and so on and so forth.

  • Pitch classes are defined as a group/selection of notes with the same letter name but different octaves. 

  • only a few of these pitches are audible to the human ear

  • The pitch class C stands for all possible Cs, in whatever octave position.

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Pitch Class, Eight Note Octave and Solfege - Music Skills 101

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