Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
Published on 22. October 1997
Book
Mixed media product
XVIII, 345 pages
978-3-540-76173-0 (ISBN)
Description
This work 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 in others. Sensory consonance and the ability to measure it have important implications for musical theory and analysis. Applications include methods of adapting sounds for arbitrary scales, ways to specify scales for nonharmonic sounds and techniques of sound manipulation based on maximizing (or minimizing) consonance. Special consideration is given here to a new method of adaptive tuning that can automatically adjust the tuning of a piece based on its timbral character so as to minimize dissonance. Audio examples illustrating the ideas presented are provided on the accompanying compact disk.
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Edition
1st Edition.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
33 s/w Abbildungen
127 figures, bibiography
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-76173-0 (9783540761730)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4471-4177-8
Schweitzer Classification
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Content
1. The Octave is Dead... Long Live the Octave.- 2. The Science of Sound.- 3. Musical Scales.- 4. Consonance and Dissonance of Harmonic Sounds.- 5. Related Spectra and Scales.- 6. A Bell, A Rock, A Crystal.- 7. Adaptive Tunings.- 8. The Gamelan.- 9. Consonance-Based Musical Analysis.- 10. From Tuning to Spectrum.- 11. Spectral Mappings.- 12. A "Music Theory" for 10-tet.- 13. Speculation, Correlation, Interpretation, Conclusion.- Appendix A. Mathematics of Beats.- Appendix B. Ratios Make Cents.- Appendix C. Speaking of Spectra.- C.1 Spectrum of a Sine Wave.- C.2 Steady State Analysis.- C.3 Analysis of the Attack.- C.4 Pads and Windows.- C.5 Finding Spectral Peaks.- Appendix D. Additive Synthesis.- Appendix E. How to Dray Dissonance Curves.- Appendix F. Properties of Dissonance Curves.- Appendix G. Behavior of Adaptive Tunings.- Appendix H. Tables of Scales.- Appendix I. Classical Music of Thailand.- Discography.- Sound Examples.