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Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale / William A. Sethares.

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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions of consonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre. This also relates to musical scale: certain timbres sound more consonant in some scales than others. Sensory consonance and the ability to measure it have important implication...

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Main Author: Sethares, William A., 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Springer, ©1998.
Subjects:
Sound.
Tuning.
Tone color (Music)
Musical intervals and scales.
Psychoacoustics.
Music > Acoustics and physics.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude
  • Variables, Abbreviations, Definitions
  • The Octave is Dead ... Long Live the Octave
  • The Science of Sound
  • Musical Scales
  • Consonance and Dissonance of Harmonic Sounds
  • Related Spectra and Scales
  • A Bell A Rock A Crystal
  • Adaptive Tunings
  • The Gamelan
  • Consonance-Based Musical Analysis
  • From Tuning to Spectrum
  • Spectral Mappings
  • A "Music Theory" for 10-tet
  • Speculation, Correlation, Interpretation, Conclusion
  • With ten appendices and bibliography.

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