Some articles on intervals, interval:
... A chord consists of two or more notes played simultaneously that are certain intervals apart with respect to the chord root ... The following table shows the labels given to these intervals and the respective notes for each of the twelve keys ... above, chord notation provides a shorthand for intervals, not actual notes ...
... Let S be a set of intervals, or segments ... pm be the list of distinct interval endpoints, sorted from left to right ... The regions of this partitioning are called elementary intervals ...
... The millioctave (mO) is a unit of measurement for musical intervals ... Given two frequencies a and b, the measurement of the interval between them in millioctaves can be calculated by Likewise, if you know a note b and the number n of millioctaves in the interval ...
Famous quotes containing the word intervals:
“What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)