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  title info:
    title: Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
  name:
    name part: Sethares, William A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2005
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 426 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 for the design of audio devices and for musical theory andanalysis. Applications include methods of adapting sounds for arbitrary scales,ways to specify scales for nonharmonic sounds, and techniques of soundmanipulation based on maximizing (or minimizing) consonance. Specialconsideration is given here to a new method of adaptive tuning that canautomatically adjust the tuning of a piece based its timbral character so as tominimize dissonance. Audio examples illustrating the ideas presented areprovided for free on the Springer Extras website (http://extras.springer.com). Thisunique analysis of sound and scale will be of interest to physicists andengineers working in acoustics, as well as to musicians and psychologists .
  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.
  note: by William A. Sethares.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Biomathematics
  subject:
    topic: Acoustics
  subject:
    topic: Electronics
  subject:
    topic: Microelectronics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, general
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics
  subject:
    topic: Acoustics
  subject:
    topic: Signal, Image and Speech Processing
  classification: TK7800-8360
  classification: TK7874-7874.9
  classification: 621.381
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781846281136
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138848
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