A level or degree, or (by extension) , a peak or highest degree.
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He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.
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September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
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But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity
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1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press, published 1973, section 11:
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In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.
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1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
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In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy […]
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2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, page 190: