Relative pitch Essays

  • Physics Of Curveball Essay

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    They just forgot to mention the other effects of fluids in nature. “The influence of the fluid on a body moving through it depends not only on the body’s velocity but also on the velocity of the fluid,” this is called relative velocity ( ). The relative velocity of a body in a fluid has an effect on the magnitude of the acting forces. For example, as a long distance runner is running into a head wind, the force of the fluid is very strong. If the runner is running with the help of a

  • The Physics of the Human Voice

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    last more than a few minutes without its use whether it is talking to someone else or humming quietly to ourselves. We can use the voice artistically in many ways. For example, singing carries the rhythm and melody of speech. It creates patterns of pitch, loudness, and duration that tie together syllables, phrases and sentences. We use the voice for survival, emotion, expression, and to reflect our personality. The loss of the voice is a severe curtailment to many professions. It is affected by general

  • Cricket Training Program

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    effort for a 6 hour plus period without fatigue, in sometimes very warm conditions. There bodies most be capable of explosive bursts at any given time - such as racing for a ball, jumping for a catch. Aim to keep your body moving whilst on the pitch, walking and stretching the muscles whenever possible. Keep your mind busy by visualising exactly what you will do when the ball comes towards you. Bowlers require both explosive strength and speed, combined with good muscular endurance, in order

  • Baseball Quotes

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    thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely." -- Ted Williams "Baseball is 50% from the neck up" -- Ted Williams "Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think." -- Ted Williams "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." -- Ted Williams "I just hit 'em where they ain't." -- Wee Willie Keeler

  • A Day At The Park

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    diaper bag packed , the traffic, and fighting the crowds while pushing a stroller. It was hectic, but I survived. Finally we were situated and ready for the game. The singing of the national anthem was finished and we were waiting for the first pitch. All of a sudden it hit me, for some reason I couldn't have been prouder. There I was, holding my son and watching my childhood heroes, sharing his first major league baseball game. Now I don't know if what I felt was brought on by television fantasy

  • Les Miserables

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    prostitution are Lovely Ladies, A Heart Full of Love, and Master of The House. Moreover, it is a song titled Do You Hear the People Sing? That prepares the audience for the ending of Act one. Most if not all of Act one uses song, tonality, character, pitch and tone to depict the various themes of the play while the story is beginning to unravel. Throughout the second and final act the musical content within the play acts as a story of it’s own through theme and variation. Each separate song represents

  • Gender Differences of Communication

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    many of their words and tend to be sloppy in their pronunciation of words. Men tend to use loudness when emphasizing words instead of inflection and pitch to emphasize points. According to Webster's, inflection is "a change in the tone of the voice," or "the change of form in a word to indicate number, case, tense, etc." (Glass 51) Women tend to use pitch and inflection more so than men do. Men have a tendency to speak in a lower tone and rarely change from that tone to any others. Women on the other

  • Playing the Flute

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    compromise a good brand name for cost, beginning flutists can get away with buying a student flute. Student flutes differ from professional flutes in that professional flutes are open-holed. Rather than having so... ... middle of paper ... ... pitch, and embouchure. It’s merely the mastery of these three principles that requires practice and patience. The reward is understanding how to play what is, in my opinion, the most beautiful of band instruments. The enemy is discouragement. Yet as

  • The Sense of Smell

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    because it is bas ed on the recognition of actual objects, of molecules in the gaseous phase. Unlike differences in light or sound, which can both be plotted as a range on the continuum of a single feature (wavelength for color and frequency for pitch), the range of odo rs we perceive cannot be plotted as a wave function. The movement of odorous molecules depends on diffusion, and the gathering and funneling of air that my own nostrils do. Ones nose is involved in a sort of constant sampling of

  • A Curse and a Gift

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    Gift He stands in the dark, lingering. Always linger. Faceless, but his cold, menacing eyes illuminate from the depth of the abyss. He’s gone now. My attention is diverted to a lonely, deserted road. There’s no sign of life anywhere. It’s pitch dark and I’m walking. I don’t know where I’m going, but I have to get out of this darkness. A cold, unsettling breeze emerges from a warm, summer’s night. I feel chills rising through my spine. “Something’s wrong.” I walk for a considerable amount

  • The Powerful Use of Tone in John Collier's The Chaser

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    made clear through Collier's use of tone that Alan is anything but brave. Interestingly, while his situation pertaining to his sweetheart, Diana, never changes, Alan is so taken with the old man's words (which are really nothing more than a sales pitch) that he actually allows himself to let down his guard and be taken advantage of. Collier drastically alters Alan's demeanor over the course of his brief visit; in fact, by the end of the story, Collier's use of tone has changed he who was once "nervous

  • MBA Admissions Essays - An Entrepreneurial Passion

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    completely different from what I had expected, but by viewing and touching it first hand, my ability to convey to people what I was offering improved dramatically. Once I viewed the device, I felt more confident to adlib on the sales pitch. In a couple of weeks reading my hybrid pitch led to a higher rate of sales. People were more apt to buy from someone who sounded like a person and less like a robot. My sales steadily improved and in my third month I was the number one sales person out of over 200 employees

  • Toni Morrison's Beloved - The Prophetic Healer

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    individual came about.  After all, even Denver felt a strangeness about her birth that made her feel, “like a bill was owing somewhere… But who she owed or what to pay it with eluded her.”  (77)  Life’s mysteries do that.  Suddenly the book takes us to the pitch of the Kentucky forest where Sethe is not only tired, scared and lost, but also completely alone.  In times like these we feel an intense need for human contact.  If and when we are rescued by a simple voice, and they are willing to extend themself

  • Roberto Baggio

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    called to make his first under 16 national game. On the ninth of January Roberto played his first national juniors game. On the third day in May of 1985 Vicenza sold Roberto to Fiorentina of the serie A. The world famous ponytail was first seen on the pitch in 1987. The following year Roberto really got noticed. With such a great year, he was called up in November 1988 for his first international match. At the end of the season Roberto married Andr...

  • Does God Exist?

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    being existing in reality. Whatever is understood by the fool is argued that than which nothing is greater can be conceived cannot solely exist in the mind but also in reality, hence, God exists. (Angelfire) This personally sounds like a salesperson's pitch to confuse and conquer for a sale. Gaunilo felt the same. He frequently debated with St. Anselm on behalf of the fool. He stated that it was not possible to visualize the concept of this perfect being because one can only imagine an image when one

  • Personal Narrative: The Mechanics Of Baseball

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    my fingers against the seams and gripping the ball in a multitude of ways, imagining I was Nolan Ryan trying to select which pitch I would throw. Unfortunately however, instead of learning to throw the greatest curveball known to man, my dad told me that I first, would need to learn the proper mechanics of pitching as well as the most instrumental—and most fundamental—pitch; the fastball. My dad instructed me that I was to watch this little blue cassette called “Teaching the Mechanics of the Major

  • Music Appreciation and the Auditory System

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    Appreciation and the Auditory System Have you ever come home after an exhausting day and turned on music to relax your nerves? While you are taking it easy, your auditory cortex is not. It works hard to synthesize the several musical elements of rhythm, pitch, frequency, and timbre to create a rich auditory experience. First, a discussion of the ear physiology is needed. Vibrating air moving at different frequencies hits the eardrum which causes the middle ear's three bones to move accordingly. The stapes

  • The Correlation Between Music and Math: A Neurobiology Perspective

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    given music instruction that emphasized sequential skill development and musical games involving rhythmn and pitch, after six months, the students scored significantly better in math than students in groups that received traditional music instruction. (1) The result of this study posed another important question. How does this type of music that emphasized sequential skills, rhythmn and pitch manage to improve children's ability to do math? It turned out that there are two distinguished types of reasoning

  • Christian Bök - Inviting Us to Rethink how Language Works

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    words? To be effective, language must be able to communicate ideas. Bök’s “language” then, communicates ideas through explosions of non-meanings. It relies heavily on its emotive function, stirring the audience’s imagination with fluctuations in pitch, tone, and tempo. It is also metalingual: it draws attention to itself as the audience tries to decipher the poem through only the sense of hearing. In his poem “Valuvëula”, Bök chants in an alien language. S... ... middle of paper ... ... Available

  • Raves

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    Raves Imagine you are in your room and it’s about 1:00 in the morning. It’s pitch black outside and you’ve been lost for hours. There’s nothing good on the radio. You’re dying of thirst and you’re drenched with sweat. You’re just about to turn around and open your window for some fresh air and you hear it. The bass is in sync with your heartbeat and the lights are flashing everywhere. So you follow this music and you arrive at your destination: A rave. It is the vibe that is so commonly talked about