Musical Scale Quotes

I don't know a high C from a low C.

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

And I've made it a choice on my records that sometimes I leave the breath or the trailing note that sometimes falls into a flat or a sharp.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale.

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

You can play the piano with the white keys only or you can play it with only the black keys. But for harmony you must use the black and the white keys.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes