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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Characteristics of musical sound

PITCH
Pitch is that characteristics of musical sound which depends on its frequency.A musical sound having high frequency is called high pitch sound.It is also called shrill sound.But a musical sound having two frequency is called low pitch sound and also called flat or grave or hoarse sound.For eg: The voice of children and women have higher pitch as compared to that of adult or a man.

LOUDNESS
It can be defined as the magnitude of hearing sensation produced by a musical sound.It depends on the intensity of sound.Higher the intensity of musical sound,higher will be the loudness and vice-versa.The intensity of musical sound at a point is defined as amount of sound energy received per second per unit area.So all the factor which attract the intensity of sound will also affect the loudness.For eg:1)The ampliude of vibration of source. 2)Surface area of a vibrating body,density of medium. 3)Distance between source and observer.

QUALITY OR BIMBER
It can be defined as the property of musical sound by which one can distinguish between two sounds or same loudness and pitch.It can be determined by the number of harmonic or avertone sound.A sounding body may produce waves of different frequency; 2f0,3f0,4f0,5f0....... where f0 is the fundamental frequency i.e lower possible freqency 2f0,3f0,....etc are called avertones.
Analysing the quality of sound,we can recognize the sources of sound without seeing.

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