Clay/tone (music)

Sine function

Tones the basic elements are that . With the term Clay/tone the single tone is designated. From it to distinguish is that responsible. Also the voice is in the regard in Instrument; a sung clay/tone consists likewise of the basic clay/tone and several overtones. So mentioned determine in the voice the colouring of the clay/tone.

The following parameters can be described at a clay/tone:

• those leaves itself on the one hand as in (oscillations per second), on the other hand in clay/tone designations with pertinent indication of the Oktavstreifens express; see also
• those or Tonstaerke is physical as amplitude ( of the becomes by the weighting of partial tones and Overtones, which along-swing with the actual clay/tone, determines, as well as from their temporal behavior.

One calls the distance of two tones or Cluster.

One places tones in writing by its clay/tone names together with Oktavstreifen, graphically as Notes.

History of the abendlaendischen clay/tone system

Since that one used for the designation of the sieved the abendlaendischen clay/tone system the first seven letters of latin :

A, b, C, D, e, f, g

The clay/tone b split later into two partial tones, a higher (b quadratum, angular b) and a deeper (b rotundum, round b). B quadratum was confounded later because of its similarity with the letter h (clerical errors of a monk in the Middle Ages). With A as basic clay/tone the kind of clay/tone A-Moll results, with C as basic clay/tone the kind of clay/tone C major. Since Dur is the today most usual scale, we know the naturals in the order today in German:

C, D, e, f, g, A, h

In English against it the note h is called today still b, while the note b there as b flat one designates. The internationally usual designation is those, which comes from the English. (which actually is also correct.) see in addition also anderssprachige clay/tone designations.