Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

For the musical note, see E ♯ ( musical note ).

Of note, " Rage Hard " was a testament to the changing musical landscape in Britain at the time.

In all of them I now note that there is less musical science, less of the grand idea, but more color, sunlight, flavor of olives.

* Clef ( from the French for " key "), the symbol that assigns note names to the lines and spaces of the musical staff

The twelve notes of the Western musical scale are laid out with the lowest note on the left ;

" In the former case, one uses " note " to refer to a specific musical event ; in the latter, one uses the term to refer to a class of events sharing the same pitch.

In musical notation, accidentals are placed before the note symbols.

The musical terms " piano " and " forte " mean " quiet " and " loud ," and in this context refers to the variations in volume of sound the instrument produces in response to a pianist's touch on the keys: the greater a key press's velocity, the greater the force of the hammer hitting the string ( s ), and the louder the note produced.

* Timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound that distinguishes different types of sound production

* 1260 – German musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes Ars Cantus Mensurabilis, in which he advances a new theory of musical notation in which the length of a musical note is denoted by the shape of that note, a system still used today.

In terms of musical note frequency, the averaging of the frequency of low or high notes in a solo instrumental piece is a technique used to match different instruments together so they may be played together.

Rather, a musical note composed of many harmonically related frequencies is perceived as one sound, the quality, or timbre of that sound being a result of the relative strengths of the individual harmonic frequencies.

The polyphonic organization of different melodies to sound at the same time was still a relatively new invention then, and it is understandable that the mathematical or physical relationships in frequency that give rise to the musical intervals as we hear them, should be foremost among the preoccupations of Medieval musicians.

Differences can include the texts of prayers, the frequency of prayer, the number of prayers recited at various religious events, the use of musical instruments and choral music, and whether prayers are recited in the traditional liturgical languages or the vernacular.

For musical applications, a source of musical sounds is used as the carrier, instead of extracting the fundamental frequency.

The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singer's Formant, which has been shown to be a resonance added to the normal resonances of the vocal tract above the frequency range of most instruments and so enables the singer's voice to carry better over musical accompaniment.

The theremin, an electronic musical instrument, uses the heterodyne principle to produce a variable audio frequency in response to the movement of the musician's hands in the vicinity of some so called antennas, which act as capacitor plates.

Resonant systems can be used to generate vibrations of a specific frequency ( e. g. musical instruments ), or pick out specific frequencies from a complex vibration containing many frequencies ( e. g. filters ).

* the shattering of a crystal wineglass when exposed to a musical tone of the right pitch ( its resonant frequency )

The frequency response specification of a speaker " attempts to describe the range of frequencies or musical tones a speaker can reproduce, measured in Hertz " Subwoofers vary in terms of the range of pitches that they can reproduce, depending on a number of factors such as the size of the cabinet and the construction and design of the enclosure and driver ( s ).

The terms vibrato and tremolo are sometimes used interchangeably, although the strict definitions of each describe them as separate effects: vibrato is a periodic variation in the pitch ( frequency ) of a musical note, whereas tremolo usually refers to periodic variations in the volume ( amplitude ) of a musical note.

Mersenne's description in the 1636 Harmonie universelle of the first absolute determination of the frequency of an audible tone ( at 84 Hz ) implies that he had already demonstrated that the absolute-frequency ratio of two vibrating strings, radiating a musical tone and its octave, is 1: 2.

Furthermore, the verb sharpen means " raise the frequency of a note, typically by a small musical interval ".

( 2004 ) concluded that " no significant difference was found between sounds with and without very high frequency components among the sound stimuli and the subjects ... however, et al can still neither confirm nor deny the possibility that some subjects could discriminate between musical sounds with and without very high frequency components.

Swara refers to a type of musical sound that is a single note, which defines a relative ( higher or lower ) position of a note, rather than a defined frequency.

In effect, it is a series of obligatory musical events which must be observed, either absolutely or with a particular frequency.

Tweeters designed for sound reinforcement and musical instrument applications are broadly similar to high fidelity tweeters, though they're usually not referred to as tweeters, but as " high frequency drivers ".

Another feature that was not incorporated in the final design was a frequency look-up table for the most common musical notes, a feature that was dropped because of space limitations.

He had been best known for his Essays in Musical Analysis and his editions of the works of Bach and Beethoven but since the 1990s his compositions ( relatively small in number but very substantial in musical content ) have been recorded and performed with increasing frequency.

There are no similar loudspeaker power handling measurement methods in the US ; the problem is much harder as many loudspeaker systems have very different power handling capacities at different frequencies ( e. g., tweeters which handle high frequency signals are physically small and easily damaged, while woofers which handle low frequency signals are larger and more robust ) in addition to the previously cited great variation in the power levels inherent in musical signals presented to a loudspeaker.

Koenig's software translated the calculation of mathematical equations into codes which represented musical notation.

In the case of a periodic function, such as a continuous, but not necessarily sinusoidal, musical tone, the Fourier transform can be simplified to the calculation of a discrete set of complex amplitudes, called Fourier series coefficients.

", while focusing on a Hi-NRG musical formula, was more lyrically focused on anti-homosexual prejudice.

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer headed by Arthur Freed made the transition from old-fashioned musical films, whose formula had become repetitive, to something new.

The musical formula was augmented by the girls ' brightly colored videos and curious costuming: each girl wore wrapped condoms on their clothing ( Lopes also wore one over her left eye in a pair of glasses ).

Rodgers and Hammerstein also use the technique of what some call the " formula musical ".

The term ' formula musical ' may refer to a musical with a predictable plot, but it also refers to the casting requirements of Rodgers & Hammerstein characters.

Since Pythagoras calculated the formula for the musical cycle of fourths and fifths, Steel Pans are the only instruments made to follow this configuration.

These films were clearly modeled on the successful formula of the black-and-white and Technicolor musical films being produced by American film studios RKO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s.

Like most musical genres, ( modern ) Eurobeat has a fairly specific formula to it:

Although the term is attributed to The Cramps, their musical style is closer in formula to the surf rock sound of the early 1960s combined with the traditional " 12-bar blues " format than to 1950s rockabilly rhythms and vocal styles.

The musical Evita was initially produced as an album, before being adapted for the stage, followed a formula Lloyd Webber and Rice had stumbled upon during the production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Genres include the oldest, yukar ( mimicry ), which is a form of epic poetry, and upopo, in which " the second contrapuntal voice had to imitate the musical formula in the first contrapuntal voice ( not heard until the last moment ), at an interval much shorter than that in our western canons, since the second voice attacks the preceding musical formula before the first voice has finished it.

Most of these troupes followed Goldfaden's original formula of musical vaudeville and light comedy, while Goldfaden himself turned more toward relatively serious operettas about biblical and historical subjects, especially after his own company left Bucharest for an extended tour of the cities of Imperial Russia.

At the forefront of this movement were Los Ratones Paranoicos, whom for years before were perfecting a musical formula that would be emulated by countless neighborhood bands in years to come.

In chant, a reciting tone ( also called a recitation tone ) is a repeated musical pitch around which the other pitches of the chant gravitate, or by extension, the entire melodic formula that centers on one or two such pitches.

They then commented on the musicality of the album by saying, " it's an intelligent musical formula sorely missed in much music of the early 21st century ".

This would be the final " formula " musical film of Presley's career.

He hit upon a successful formula, building light musical comedies around an adolescent soprano ( Franciska Gaal ).

By the early 90's the Front 242 formula seemed to be tiring and there were growing musical differences within the group.

In his Allmusic review, music critic Dan Cross wrote of the album " The Flecktones have stuck with the formula that made their previous records successful: complex, tight grooves wrapped in a very musical, user-friendly package.

According to a review, " Their hybrid musical formula was distinguishable by Cook's unusual choking-sound vocals, Niemeyer's muted, choppy, buzzsaw guitars, dark metallic riffs, and Dana Collins rapid-fire, double-kick drumming.