Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale by William A. Sethares.

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. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edition:2nd ed. 2005.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Electronics.
Microelectronics.
Engineering.
Neurosciences.
Biomathematics.
Acoustics.
Signal processing.
Image processing.
Speech processing systems.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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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