TY - BOOK ID - 207962 TI - Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale PY - 2005 SN - 128033729X 9786610337293 184628113X 1852337974 1849969221 PB - London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Sound. KW - Tuning. KW - Tone color (Music) KW - Musical intervals and scales. KW - Psychoacoustics. KW - Music KW - Acoustics and physics. KW - Psychophysics KW - Sound KW - Intervals (Music) KW - Modes, Musical KW - Musical modes KW - Musical scales and intervals KW - Scales (Music) KW - Music theory KW - Musical temperament KW - Timbre (Music) KW - Tone quality KW - Musical acoustics KW - Physics KW - Monochord KW - Musical pitch KW - Acoustics KW - Continuum mechanics KW - Mathematical physics KW - Pneumatics KW - Radiation KW - Wave-motion, Theory of KW - Modes KW - Acoustics and physics KW - Electronics. KW - Engineering. KW - Neurosciences. KW - Physiology KW - Acoustics. KW - Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. KW - Engineering, general. KW - Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics. KW - Signal, Image and Speech Processing. KW - Mathematics. KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Electrical engineering KW - Physical sciences KW - Animal physiology KW - Animals KW - Biology KW - Anatomy KW - Neural sciences KW - Neurological sciences KW - Neuroscience KW - Medical sciences KW - Nervous system KW - 78.86.1 KW - Microelectronics. KW - Biomathematics. KW - Signal processing. KW - Image processing. KW - Speech processing systems. KW - Computational linguistics KW - Electronic systems KW - Information theory KW - Modulation theory KW - Oral communication KW - Speech KW - Telecommunication KW - Singing voice synthesizers KW - Pictorial data processing KW - Picture processing KW - Processing, Image KW - Imaging systems KW - Optical data processing KW - Processing, Signal KW - Information measurement KW - Signal theory (Telecommunication) KW - Mathematics KW - Microminiature electronic equipment KW - Microminiaturization (Electronics) KW - Electronics KW - Microtechnology KW - Semiconductors KW - Miniature electronic equipment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:207962 AB - 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 . ER -