Timbre as an Elusive Component of Imagery for Music
Empirical Musicology Review, 2007 Evidence of the ability to imagine timbre is either anecdotal, or applies to isolated instrument tones rather than timbre in real music. Experiments were conducted to infer the vividness of timbre in imagery for music.
Freya Bailes
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Characterizing prototypical musical instrument timbres with timbre trait profiles
Music & Science, 2021 This paper offers a series of characterizations of prototypical musical timbres, called Timbre Trait Profiles, for 34 musical instruments common in Western orchestras and wind ensembles.
L. Reymore
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Neural and behavioral investigations into timbre perception
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2013 Timbre is the attribute that distinguishes sounds of equal pitch, loudness and duration. It contributes to our perception and discrimination of different vowels and consonants in speech, instruments in music and environmental sounds.
Stephen Michael Town +1 more
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Pitch and timbre interfere when both are parametrically varied. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Pitch and timbre perception are both based on the frequency content of sound, but previous perceptual experiments have disagreed about whether these two dimensions are processed independently from each other. We tested the interaction of pitch and timbre
Valeria C Caruso, Evan Balaban
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Poetics of hypertimbralism in music
Proceedings (European Academy of Sciences and Arts), 2022 My presentation is an attempt to introduce and clarify an original concept which I called Hypertimbralism, that refers to music based on Hypertimbre as the foundation for musical composition.
Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea
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How vocal timbre impacts word identification and listening effort in traffic-shaped noises [PDF]
JASA Express LettersThis study investigated how variation in vocal timbre (e.g., neutral and twangy) influences intelligibility and listening effort in traffic-shaped noises.
Tzu-Pei Tsai, Tessa Bent, Malachi Henry
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Understanding concurrent earcons: applying auditory scene analysis principles to concurrent earcon recognition [PDF]
, 2004 Two investigations into the identification of concurrently presented, structured sounds, called earcons were carried out. One of the experiments investigated how varying the number of concurrently presented earcons affected their identification.
Blattner M. M. +25 more
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Is Vivaldi smooth and takete? Non-verbal sensory scales for describing music qualities [PDF]
, 2015 Studies on the perception of music qualities (such as induced or perceived emotions, performance styles, or timbre nuances) make a large use of verbal descriptors.
CANAZZA TARGON, Sergio +4 more
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Instrument Timbre Enhances Perceptual Segregation in Orchestral Music
, 2021 Timbre perception and auditory grouping principles can provide a theoretical basis for aspects of orchestration. In Experiment 1, 36 excerpts contained two streams and 12 contained one stream as determined by music analysts.
Manda Fischer +4 more
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Discrimination of timbre in early auditory responses of the human brain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BACKGROUND: The issue of how differences in timbre are represented in the neural response still has not been well addressed, particularly with regard to the relevant brain mechanisms.
Jaeho Seol +5 more
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