pitched battle

(noun)

A hostile engagement involving sustained, full-scale fighting between opposing forces in close combat.

Related Terms

  • Siege of Boston
  • William Prescott

Examples of pitched battle in the following topics:

  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

    • The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, following the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
    • Furthermore, the battle demonstrated that relatively inexperienced colonial forces were willing and able to stand up to regular army troops in a pitched battle.
    • The Massachusetts Committee of Safety, seeking to repeat the sort of propaganda victory it won following the battles at Lexington and Concord, commissioned a report of the battle to send to England.
    • This painting illustrates the death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
    • Discuss the significance of the Battle of Bunker Hill for the future course of the Revolutionary War
  • Symmetry and Centricity

    • When a particular pitch-class is regularly the lowest, highest, loudest, or longest in a passage, that pitch-class becomes something like a tonic.
    • Pitch symmetry always implies an axis of symmetry.
    • Pitch-class symmetry is very similar to pitch symmetry, but understood in pitch-class space.
    • Mapping this on the pitch-class circle shows the passage's pitch-class symmetry.
    • Unlike pitch space, pitch-class axes are always located at two different points in the pitch-class circle.
  • Pitch

    • That is, "high" pitch means very rapid oscillation, and "low" pitch corresponds to slower oscillation.
    • Attitudinal: high declining pitch signals more excitement than does low declining pitch, as in "Good ↗morn↘ing" versus "Good morn↘ing. "
    • Avoid monotony, speaking with one pitch tone or little variety in pitch.
    • The higher pitch sounds move up the treble clef and the lower pitch sounds move down the bass clef.
    • Define pitch and describe how pitch changes can change the meaning of sentences
  • Interval (Class)

    • Pitch intervals are the distance between pitches as measured in half steps.
    • Pitch-class intervals are the distance between pitch classes as measured in semitones.
    • The ordered pitch interval from G4 to B-flat5 is +15, but the ordered pitch interval from A-sharp5 to G4 is -15.
    • Unordered intervals represent the shortest distance between two pitches or pitch classes, without any reference to the order they are in.
    • The unordered pitch interval from G4 to A-sharp5 is 15.
  • Pitches

    • On the illustration below, the pitch-class letter names are written on the keyboard.
    • When specifying a particular pitch precisely, we also need to know theregister.
    • In fact, if all you have is C-sharp or B-flat, you do not have a pitch, you have a pitch-class.
    • A pitch-class plus a register together designate a specific pitch.
    • So an ascending scale from middle C contains the following pitch designations:
  • Pitch (Class)

    • Pitches are discrete tones with individual frequencies.
    • The concept of pitch, then, does not imply octave equivalence.
    • C4 is a pitch, and it is not the same pitch as C3.
    • Pitch classes are pitches under octave equivalence that are also spelled the same.
    • A4, A3, A2, etc. are all members of the pitch class A.
  • Set Class and Prime Form (1)

    • A concept like pitch, for example, is very concrete, while pitch class is somewhat more abstract.
    • We can perform a pitch, but we can't really perform a pitch class.
    • Ordered pitch intervals are associated with a very specific sound (e.g., +15); unordered pitch-class intervals (e.g., interval class 1) are less vivid or real.
    • A basic concept in pitch-class set theory is that these levels of concreteness and abstractness encompass not only pitch and interval, but groups of pitch classes as well.
    • These groups of pitch classes are called pitch-class sets.
  • Analyzing Atonal Music

    • Pitch transposition involves moving every pitch in a collection up or down by a specified interval.
    • Pitch-class transposition does the same thing.
    • For pitch-class transpositions, use ordered pitch-class intervals (numbers 0–11).
    • Pitch inversion occurs when all pitches are inverted, or flipped, around an axis of symmetry in pitch space (in other words, the axis of symmetry is a pitch).
    • Pitch-class inversion occurs when all pitch classes of a collection are inverted, or flipped, around an axis of symmetry in pitch-class space (in other words, the axis of symmetry is a pitch class).
  • Normal Order

    • Normal order is the most compressed way to write a given collection of pitch classes.
    • Write as a collection of pitch classes (eliminating duplicates) in ascending order and within a single octave.
    • Write as a collection of pitch classes (eliminating duplicates) in ascending order and within a single octave. {8,9,3}
    • Find the largest ordered pitch-class interval between adjacent pitch classes.
    • In these cases, write the ordering implied by each tie and calculate the interval from the first to the penultimate pitch class.
  • Transposition

    • Transposition is an operation—something that is done to a pitch, pitch class, or collection of these things—or alternatively a measurement—representing the distance between things.
    • We represent it as Tn, where n represents the ordered pitch-class interval between the two things.
    • Given the collection of pitch classes in m. 1 above and transposition by T4:
    • The result is the pitch classes in m. 18.
    • This is how I arrived at the T4 arrow label in the musical example above, by "subtracting" the pitch class integers of m. 1 from the pitch-class integers in m. 18.
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