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noun
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Music. the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre.
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Acoustic Phonetics. one of the regions of concentration of energy, prominent on a sound spectrogram, that collectively constitute the frequency spectrum of a speech sound. The relative positioning of the first and second formants, whether periodic or aperiodic, as of the o of hope at approximately 500 and 900 cycles per second, is usually sufficient to distinguish a sound from all others.
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Formant
is always a great word to know.
So is minor. Does it mean:
| interval smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval |
| rest equivalent in duration to a whole note |
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