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Audio Features Affected by Music Expressiveness

, 2016
Within a Music Information Retrieval perspective, the goal of the study presented here is to investigate the impact on sound features of the musician's affective intention, namely when trying to intentionally convey emotional contents via expressiveness.
Barthet M., Bishop C. M., Eerola T., Kim Y. E., Krimphoff J., Pollard H. F., Presti G., Presti G., Wu B.   +8 more
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Reflections on sound timbre definitions

Archives of Acoustics, 2014
The article is concerned with systematic classification of concepts and terms in acoustics. Special attention is attached to definitions of timbre. The article presents a review of definitions of timbre published in the literature.
Marianna SANKIEWICZ, Gustaw BUDZYŃSKI
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Scat Singing: A Timbral and Phonemic Analysis

Current Musicology, 2001
In this article William Bauer analyzes scat and timbre within the context of Jazz and their effects on music over time. He concludes that for many vocalists timbre is much more than a vehicle for adding coloristic touches to a melodic line.
William R. Bauer
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Mandarin Singing Voice Synthesis Based on Harmonic Plus Noise Model and Singing Expression Analysis [PDF]

, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate how humans interpret musical scores expressively, and then design machines that sing like humans. We consider six factors that have a strong influence on the expression of human singing. The factors are related
Gu, Hung-Yan, Wang, Hsin-Min, Wang, Ju-Chiang   +2 more
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Christliche Sakralbauten als Hörräume Modulationen von einer visuellen zu einer auditiven Sprache

Limina
Das Ziel des Beitrages ist es, einen Sinn für (christliche) Sakralbauten als Hörräume zu entwickeln. Entgegen dem Paradigma einer Vorherrschaft des Sehens („Okkularzentrismus“) werden Sakralbauten nicht in optischer Hinsicht betrachtet, sondern wird nach
Deibl, Jakob Helmut
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Factors in human recognition of timbre lexicons generated by data clustering [PDF]

, 2012
Since the development of sound recording technologies, the palette of sound timbres available for music creation was extended way beyond traditional musical instruments. The organization and categorization of timbre has been a common endeavor.
Herrera, Perfecto, Laney, Robin, Roma, Gerard, Xambó, Anna   +3 more
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Corpus-Based Transcription as an Approach to the Compositional Control of Timbre [PDF]

, 2009
Timbre space is a cognitive model useful to address the problem of structuring timbre in electronic music. The recent concept of corpus-based concatenative sound synthesis is proposed as an approach to timbral control in both real- and deferred-time ...
Bresson, J., Einbond, A., Schwarz, D.
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Acoustic and mechanic characterization of materials used in manufacturing the soundboard of the spanish guitar: influence in the sonority

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2015
En el presente trabajo se muestra un estudio realizado con los materiales másutilizados en la construcción de la tapa armónica de la guitarra y su relación con algunascaracterísticas del sonido tales como timbre, volumen y duración.
Ennio Hugo Idrobo-Ávila, Rubiel Vargas-Cañas   +1 more
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Quantifying sound colour of musical instruments – precise harmonic timbre coordinates of like instruments

Acta Acustica
Timbre – sound “colour” – is an abstract, delicate property of sound, especially in a high-value context such as musical instruments. It is a perceptual construct so intangible that it cannot be considered a quantity. Since sound nevertheless reaches our
Prislan Rok, Kržič Urša, Svenšek Daniel   +2 more
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Timbre Space: On the Flat History of a Multidimensional Metaphor

Music & Science
This article reflects on the “flat” history of timbre space , tracking its emergence as a technical inscription in psychoacoustic experiments and its rise to become a dominant conceptual metaphor in timbre studies.
Landon Morrison
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