Noise in music
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In music, noise is variously described as unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, loud, unmusical, or unwanted sound. Noise is an important component of the sound of the human voice and all musical instruments, particularly in unpitched percussion instruments and electric guitars (using distortion). Electronic instruments create various colours of noise. Traditional uses of noise are unrestricted, using all the frequencies associated with pitch and timbre, such as the white noise component of a drum roll on a snare drum, or the transients present in the prefix of the sounds of some organ pipes.
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Noise in general
- Noise (disambiguation) for a list of other articles related to noise
- Noise (electronics)
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Relating noise to music
- The definition of music, detailed discussions
- Phonaesthetics for the aesthetics of sound, and particularly what is meant by cacophony
- Aesthetics of music
- Inharmonicity, one of the factors causing a sound to be perceived as unpitched
- Consonance and dissonance#Dissonance for discussion of the nature and usage of discords in melody and harmony and similar devices in rhythm and metre
- Timbral listening
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