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Author Sethares, William A., 1955-

Title Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale / William A. Sethares
Edition 2nd ed
Published London : Springer, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 426 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary Aimed at musicians and composers who use inharmonic tones and sounds, this book-and-CD package offers an analysis of the relationship between the structure of sound and the structure of scale. It also provides a fresh approach to working with environmental sounds, and presents applications for the use of inharmonic sounds in film scoring
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-397) and index
Notes English
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Subject Sound.
Tuning.
Tone color (Music)
Musical intervals and scales.
Psychoacoustics.
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
Psychoacoustics
Acoustics
tuning.
timbre (acoustics concept)
acoustics.
SCIENCE -- Acoustics & Sound.
Ingénierie.
Music -- Acoustics and physics
Musical intervals and scales
Psychoacoustics
Sound
Tone color (Music)
Tuning
Acústica musical.
Som (música)
Intervalo (música)
Escala musical.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004049190
ISBN 9781846281136
184628113X
1852337974
9781852337971
9786610337293
6610337292