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Expectations in Culturally Unfamiliar Music: Influences of Proximal and Distal Cues and Timbral Characteristics

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Listeners’ musical perception is influenced by cues that can be stored in short-term memory (e.g. within the same musical piece) or long-term memory (e.g. based on one’s own musical culture).
Catherine J Stevens, Julien eTardieu, Julien eTardieu, Peter eDunbar-Hall, Catherine T Best, Barbara eTillmann, Barbara eTillmann   +6 more
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Sophisticated Audio Source Separation: A Statistical Exploration of Clarity and Precision With FastICA

Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2026.
This workflow presents a complete pipeline for audio data processing, beginning with format conversion, channel adjustments, and cleaning, followed by enhancement and visualization techniques. It further applies signal separation using FastICA, postprocessing, and evaluation metrics (SDR, SIR, SAR) to improve audio analysis and support future research ...
Md. Razu Ahmed, Jannatul Mauya, Md. Shamim Reza, Ruhul Amin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

TimbreTron: A WaveNet(CycleGAN(CQT(Audio))) Pipeline for Musical Timbre Transfer

, 2019
In this work, we address the problem of musical timbre transfer, where the goal is to manipulate the timbre of a sound sample from one instrument to match another instrument while preserving other musical content, such as pitch, rhythm, and loudness.
Anil, Cem, Bao, Xuchan, Grosse, Roger B., Huang, Sicong, Li, Qiyang, Oore, Sageev   +5 more
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The impact of mother's mental health, infant characteristics and war trauma on the acoustic features of infant‐directed singing

Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Infant‐directed singing (IDSi) is a natural means of dyadic communication that contributes to children's mental health by enhancing emotion expression, close relationships, exploration and learning. Therefore, it is important to learn about factors that impact the IDSi.
Raija‐Leena Punamäki, Safwat Y. Diab, Konstantinos Drosos, Samir R. Quota   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an ecological conception of timbre [PDF]

, 2002
This paper is part of a series in which we had worked in the last 6 months, and, specifically, intend to investigate the notion of timbre through the ecological perspective proposed by James Gibson in his Theory of Direct Perception.
Oliveira, André L. G., Oliveira, Luis F.   +1 more
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No One Mourns the Wicked: The Ethics of Mourning Morally Flawed Celebrities

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Carme Isern‐Mas, Katrien Schaubroeck, Alfred Archer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Music as Evidence for a Creator [PDF]

, 2019
Throughout history, mankind has made music. While music is artistic, it is also scientific and informed by natural occurrences within the physical world.
Foster, Andrew
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Fink, Robert, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark (eds). 2018. The Relentless Pursuit of Tone. New York: Oxford University Press.

Current Musicology, 2018
It’s almost a platitude to mention that timbre is the most important musical dimension in popular music; the statement is so often repeated. Take one example from Mark Spicer, writing in 2005: “for the experienced listener and analyst, it is often the ...
Megan L. Lavengood
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Conceptualisation et communication des nuances de timbre à la guitare classique

, 2013
La version intégrale de cette thèse est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU).La problématique de cette thèse concerne le lexique descripteur de timbre, ses
Lavoie, Maryse
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Portfolio of compositions [PDF]

, 2013
This text contains a short general description of my experience at the University of Birmingham. This is an attempt to communicate how my perception in composing music has changed and evolved.
Malavasi, Matteo
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