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pitched

English translation: musical pitch

11:21 Jul 1, 2003
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: pitched
What's the meaning of "pitched" in this context?

TIA

It sounds like the end of the world - the music - pitched everything's pitched. There's actually music there - its not screaming and shouting - it's actually pitched madness.
TransMark
Spain
Local time: 17:33
Selected answer:musical pitch
Explanation:
the degree of highness or lowness of a tone

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Note added at 2003-07-01 11:30:57 (GMT)
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what they are saying is that the music although possibly very loud and appearing to be just a mass of noise has actually got a sense of musical pitch to it
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asusisu (X)
Local time: 16:33
Grading comment
That was it!! Thank you all for your help!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +6musical pitch
asusisu (X)
2 +3high-pressure sale/commericial promotion
JoeYeckley (X)
4 +1degree of intensity / intense / heightened
jerrie
5pitched in a certain KEY (not just high/low)
Maureen Holm, J.D., LL.M.
3chosen and adapted to suit marketing purposes
Chris Rowson (X)


Discussion entries: 1





  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
musical pitch


Explanation:
the degree of highness or lowness of a tone

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Note added at 2003-07-01 11:30:57 (GMT)
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what they are saying is that the music although possibly very loud and appearing to be just a mass of noise has actually got a sense of musical pitch to it

asusisu (X)
Local time: 16:33
PRO pts in pair: 26
Grading comment
That was it!! Thank you all for your help!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  DGK T-I: could be(as in 'musical even though crazy'), wonder if also an element of 'pitched' as in lopsided or thrown recklessly
8 mins
  -> thanks Giuli, I think it could be in the context of these alternative types of bands which use feedback etc...in their music
agree  RHELLER: this is what I understood also
1 hr
  -> Thanks Rita
agree  Christopher Crockett: Yes : "There's actually music there...it's actually pitched madness." Listen *through* the "madness" and "there's actually music there".
3 hrs
  -> Thanks,Christopher
agree  Catherine Norton
15 hrs
agree  J. Leo (X)
23 hrs
agree  Сергей Лузан
1 day 2 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +3
high-pressure sale/commericial promotion


Explanation:
A couple meanings here, probably intentionally so. Musical pitch is probably one of them. I suspect that the author also finds something forced or artifically compelling in the music, which is likened to pitching sales or trying to compel its acceptance.

JoeYeckley (X)
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  DGK T-I: could well be a combination including compulsion as you say
6 mins
agree  Catherine Norton
15 hrs
agree  J. Leo (X)
22 hrs
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
chosen and adapted to suit marketing purposes


Explanation:
I don´t think this has anythinig to do with the musical sense of "pitch", it is entirely concentrated on the marketing/advertising sense of pitch. I understand the sentence to say that the music is marketing-oriented, everything is marketing-oriented, it´s marketing-obsessed madness.

More context would help, but that´s how I understand the sentence in isolation.

Chris Rowson (X)
Local time: 17:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 243
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
degree of intensity / intense / heightened


Explanation:
Huge intense cacophony of noise (wall of sound), which has reached such volume, climax and intensity sounds like the end of the world, bedlam, madness.

pitch - degree of intensity, degree of elevation

heighened madness / intense madness
everything's heightened, intense

Or it could be pitched as in when a ship pitches, is tossed about on the waves...everything's thrown off course, out of kilter?!

Just a few more ideas
hth

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 773

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Refugio: Yes, intensity. It sounds like a play on 'pitched battle', which is an intensely fought battle in which the opposing forces are locked in close combat.
1 day 3 hrs
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5 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
pitched in a certain KEY (not just high/low)


Explanation:
that's the musical connection

Madness in the key of G, if you wish. Well, that wouldn't sound very mad, but you get the idea.

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Note added at 2003-07-06 21:22:16 (GMT)
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The marketing \"pitch\" is not the concern here.

Maureen Holm, J.D., LL.M.
United States
Local time: 11:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 4
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