Answer: it mainly is by the words and descriptions you use
Explanation:
Answer:
Many scales are diatonic including Major, Minor (the Harmonic minor is an exception) and modal scales. Examples of non-diatonic scale are pentatonic, octatonic and whole-tone scales.
e. pitch
People speak about "high" and "low" sounds quite unselfconsciously, as though they know that the latter actually have a low frequency-relatively few cycles-and the former a high frequency. The musical term for this quality of sound, which is recognized as pitch. Low pitches (low frequencies) result from long vibrating elements, high pitches from short ones.
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