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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions ofconsonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre. This alsorelates to musical scale: certain timbres sound more consonant in some scalesthan others. Sensory consonance and the ability to measure it have importantimplications fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sethares, William A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2005, 2005
Edition:2nd ed. 2005
Subjects:
Signal, Image And Speech Processing
Neurosciences
Engineering
Image Processing
Acoustics
Biomathematics
Speech Processing Systems
Physiological, Cellular And Medical Topics
Electronics And Microelectronics, Instrumentation
Electronics
Signal Processing
Engineering, General
Microelectronics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Octave Is Dead … Long Live the Octave
  • The Science of Sound
  • Sound on Sound
  • Musical Scales
  • Consonance and Dissonance of Harmonic Sounds
  • Related Spectra and Scales
  • A Bell, A Rock, A Crystal
  • Adaptive Tunings
  • A Wing, An Anomaly, A Recollection
  • The Gamelan
  • Consonance-Based Musical Analysis
  • From Tuning to Spectrum
  • Spectral Mappings
  • A “Music Theory” for 10-tet
  • Classical Music of Thailand and 7-tet
  • Speculation, Correlation, Interpretation, Conclusion

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