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In music, a note is an image signifying a melodic sound.

In English utilization, a
note is likewise the actual sound.

Notes can address the pitch and term of a sound in melodic documentation. A note
can likewise address a pitch class.

Notes are the structure squares of much composed music: discretizations of melodic
marvels that work with execution, appreciation, and analysis.[1]

The term note can be utilized in both nonexclusive and explicit faculties: it could
be said, all things considered "the piece 'Glad Birthday to You' starts with two
notes having a similar pitch", or "the piece starts with two reiterations of a
similar note". In the previous case, one uses a note to allude to a particular
melodic occasion—in the last mentioned case, one uses the term to allude to a class
of occasions having a similar pitch. (See too: Key mark names and interpretations.)

The note An or La

Names of certain notes

Two notes with basic frequencies in a proportion equivalent to any whole number
force of two (e.g., half, twice, or multiple times) are seen as practically the
same. Hence, all notes with these sorts of relations can be assembled under a
similar pitch class.

In European music hypothesis, most nations utilize the solfege naming show do–re–
mi–fa–sol–la–si, including for example Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, Romania,
most Latin American nations, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Arabic-
talking and Persian-talking nations. Be that as it may, in English, and Dutch-
speaking locales, pitch classes are normally addressed by the initial seven letters
of the Latin letters in order (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). A few European nations,
including Germany, embrace a practically indistinguishable documentation, where H
is a fill-in for B (see underneath for subtleties). Byzantium utilized the names
Pa–Vu–Ga–Di–Ke–Zo–Ni (Πα–Βου–Γα–Δι–Κε–Ζω–Νη).[2]

In customary Indian music, melodic notes are called svaras and are generally
addressed utilizing the seven notes, Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, and Ni.

The eighth note, or octave, is given a similar name as the first, however, has
twofold its recurrence. The name octave is additionally used to show the range
between a note and one more with twofold recurrence. To separate two notes that
have a similar pitch class, however, fall into various octaves—the arrangement of
logical pitch documentation consolidates a letter’s name with an Arabic numeral
assigning a particular octave. For instance, the now-standard tuning pitch for most
Western music, 440 Hz, is named a′ or A4.

There are two conventional frameworks to characterize each note and octave, the
Helmholtz pitch documentation and the logical pitch documentation.

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