Pitch class
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pitch-class-185-16710084
title:
Pitch class
text:
In music, a pitch class (p.c. or pc) is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart; for example, the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves. "The pitch class C stands for all possible Cs, in whatever octave position." Important to musical set theory, a pitch class is "all pitches related to each other by octave, enharmonic equivalence, or both." Thus, using scientific pitch notation, the pitch class "C" is the set
- {Cn : n is an integer} = {..., C−2, C−1, C0, C1, C
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encyclopedia
description:
Set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_class
date created:
2003-12-23T20:31:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T23:17:40Z
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