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Question: Differentiate musical tone from noise!.!?
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My personal take on differentiating music from noise is that noise will have far more non-related overtones and harmonics compared to the fundamental, while a musical tone will, in general, have a stronger fundamental with a relatively smaller degree of related integer overtones!.

I might be overcomplicating that!. Let me try again!.

Noise has a wider distribution of acoustic energy throughout the audio spectrum!. You can find acoustic energy in more octaves with noise than you will with a musical tone!.

On the other hand, a musical tone will have a strong tone that we will perceive as the fundamental, and a smaller degree of mostly integer overtones (harmonics that are multiples of the frequency of the fundamental)!. The mathematical relation between the overtones and the fundamental is one of the defining characteristics of music vs noise!.

If you have a mic on your computer and an audio editing program like Goldwave or Audacity or Cooledit or whatnot, turn it on and compare the audio spectrum that results from recording a "hisss" or "shhh" sound versus singing a note!. You should see a wider amount of frequencies reacting with the "shhh" sounds (because they're noise) but you should also see a smaller amount, but more active amount, of frequencies when you record a musical tone!.

I don't know how well that will work, I guess it depends somewhat on the quality of your mic and how good the resolution of your audio program is!.!.!. still, theoretically it should work!. =)


SaulWww@QuestionHome@Com

You can make an infinite number of different sounds with your voice!. Only a small number of sounds you can make are considered to be musical sounding!. The sounds that sound musical to most people are those that you make by adjusting your vocal chords to have a certain fixed tension, which causes your vocal chords to vibrate at a fixed rate when you use your voice!. If you vary the tension of your vocal chords wildly while you try to sing, listeners will accuse you of being unmusical or will say you are making noise!. If you can sing making a fixed vibration with your voice, people will say that you are singing a musical TONE!.

noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm with Saul on this one!.!.!. but also located a file that condenses his take and may help clarify:

http://www!.thesciencedesk!.com/pdffiles/M!.!.!.

Now give Saul 10 points!!!

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