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What is Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale about?
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
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- Author
- William A. Sethares Ph.D. (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag London Limited
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781846281136
- Category
- engineering
- Subjects
- Music, Science, Engineering
- Rating
- 4.32 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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