Category Archives for Music

What is four notes then?

Four notes is also a chord. The addition of a fourth note just changes the value of the chord, and introduces the need for more accurate taxonomy. It adds complexity. We’ve talked about how chord tones can be distinguished from … Continue reading →

15. January 2012 by Kiv
Categories: Math, Music | Tags: austin, bednar, chord, chords, four, harmony, hobbylocal, interval, kivett, music, notes, oregon, portland, scales, seven, seventh, texas, theory, triads | Leave a comment

Spoon in ma mouf

11. January 2012 by Kiv
Categories: Music | Tags: african, alternative, austin, bednar, blues, folk, guitar, kivett, mouf, mouth, slide, spoon, texas | Leave a comment

Three Notes Is A Chord

When three different notes are sounding simultaneously they create the first instance of a chord. Chords can have many more than just three notes, but I would argue that they may have no less than three. Two notes is afterall … Continue reading →

08. January 2012 by Kiv
Categories: Math, Music | Tags: austin, bednar, diminished, fifths, fourths, hobby local, hobbylocal, kivett, major, math, minor, music, note, root, seconds, sevenths, sixths, texas, theory, thirds, tone, unisons | Leave a comment

Intervals

An interval of space is a length. An interval of time is a duration. An interval of pitch in Western music theory is rather unimaginatively called an “interval.” Intervals are a way to compare the “space” between two notes. Let’s … Continue reading →

07. January 2012 by Kiv
Categories: Math, Music | Tags: augmented, austin, bednar, diminished, hobby, hobbylocal, intervals, kivett, local, major, math, minor, music, notes, texas notes, theory, two | 374 comments

A Single Note

What is a note? A note is actually a multidimensional thing. It has both pitch and duration. It’s like how a vector has direction, and magnitude. The magnitude might be zero, but it’s there. In the case of a … Continue reading →

07. January 2012 by Kiv
Categories: Math, Music | Tags: blog, energy, forever, frequency, fundamental, harmonics, hertz, hobby, hobbylocal, kinetic, language, local, note, pitch, Single, sound, time, vibrations, wave | 2 comments