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Posts Tagged ‘pitch’

The Overtone Series: Music’s Hidden Math

By Richard Kahn | June 30, 2026
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Here is a fact that might change how you hear music: every sound you have ever listened to is actually many sounds at once.

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Sharps, Flats, and the Enharmonic Twins

By Richard Kahn | June 19, 2026
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The musical alphabet has seven letters — A through G — and the piano keyboard has twelve distinct pitches per octave.

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The Piano Keyboard: Twelve Keys, Infinite Music

By Richard Kahn | June 16, 2026
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The piano keyboard is Tool Number Two, and it is the most important physical diagram in the study of Western music theory.

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Clefs, the Grand Staff, and the Art of Reading Pitch

By Richard Kahn | June 12, 2026
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A clef is a symbol that defines one specific line of the staff by letter name, and from that single anchor, all other pitches follow.

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Recent Posts

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  • Tonic, Dominant, Subdominant: The Three Primary Colors of Harmony
  • Comping and Improvisation: Harmony in Real Time

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