PITCHCLASS

Pitch class

In music, a pitch class is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart, e.g., the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves. "The pitch class C stands for all possible Cs, in whatever octave position." Thus, using scientific pitch notation, the pitch class "C" is the set

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pitch class

Noun

  1. An equivalence class of all pitches that are octaves apart, and which would be labeled by an integer, not a traditional letter name.


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