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Octave discrimination: An experimental confirmation of the ’’stretched’’ subjective octave

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1982
Discrimination of the musical octave was measured by the method of constant stimuli with roving standards and four response categories. For each of three musically trained listners, and two of three untrained listeners, the estimated value of the subjective octave was ’’stretched’’ slightly sharper than the physical octave of 1200 cents.
P A, Dobbins, L L, Cuddy
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Musical octaves and pitch

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1973
In certain types of musical performances systematic deviations from the frequencies of the equally tempered scale have been observed. In such scales the octave interval exceeds a 2:1 frequency ratio slightly. Experiments were carried out in which musically trained subjects matched the upper octave of a reference tone with a subsequent variable tone ...
J E, Sundberg, J, Lindqvist
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The Octave is Dead… Long Live the Octave

1998
The octave is the most consonant interval after the unison A low C on the piano sounds “the same” as a high C. Scales “repeat” at octave intervals. These commonsense notions are found wherever music is discussed: The most basic musical interval is the octave, which occurs when the frequency of any tone is doubled or halved.
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‘Octaves’

2020
The Soviet regime asked of its citizens transparency of motivation in the drive towards socialist consciousness. In the cycle ‘Octaves’, Mandelstam reprised the process of internal inspection previously broached in the ‘Slate Ode’. Whereas the ode configured subjectivity as in Freudian terms still acceptable to Soviet psychology, by the early 1930s ...
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The Octave Queueing Package

2014
Queueing Networks are a widely used performance modeling tool that has been successfully applied to evaluate many kind of systems. In this paper we describe the queueing package, a collection of numerical solution algorithms for Queueing Networks and Markov chains written in GNU Octave (an interpreted language for numerical computations).
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Shopping with Octave

Rethinking Marxism, 2010
An American economist interviews a character from a recent popular French novel while walking through the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood in Paris. They discuss marketing, cultural hegemony, and art. The economist offers the character an academic text on advertising and capitalism.
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The perception of octave pitch affinity and harmonic fusion have a common origin

Hearing Research, 2021
Laurent Demany   +2 more
exaly  

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