Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Having examined the sensation with which music deals, or pitch; the forms in which it is presented to us, or notes; and the facts of relation in pitch or interval, we pass to the study of the works themselves of which music consists...
...valuable article is the one by Charles de Kay on "Theodore Rousseau and the French Landscape School." Rousseau was one of the Barbizon school and few artists have carried the landscape to such a pitch...
...Boston and coached the men trying for pitcher. Grounders were batted in the cage and afterward some of the men took their general exercise in the hand ball courts. H. Bates, who sprained his ankle on a slippery walk the other day, was around but was not able to pitch...
...first lecture we defined a note as a single sound having distinct pitch. It has long been known that in some notes such as those of the voice and stringed instruments, what we call the pitch of the note is accompanied by a number of higher and fainter pitches. These are called overtones. The researches of Helmboltz have proved that this is not the exceptional but the common case and that comparatively few instruments (the tuning fork being one) give notes in which the pitch we principally notice is the only one apparent to closer scrutiny. According to his theory...
...PITCH.The basis of music is the sensation of pitch. This is a generic sensation, like color, consisting of many elements which taken together form a continuous series between two extremes. With this continuum the spatial ideas of height and depth have come to be associated, for reasons derived both from the nature of the sensation and the conditions of its production at the two extremes. The sequence of different pitches presents itself to the mind as a movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness...