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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale

  • The only book to provide an in-depth analysis into how the relationship between timbre and musical scale affects the consonance or dissonance of a sound, and how this can be utilized to alter consonance Written by an expert in signal processing and electroacoustics, who is also a designer of audio devices and an active musician With an accompanying audio CD illustrating the ideas presentend in the text

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. The Octave is Dead… Long Live the Octave

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 1-9
  3. The Science of Sound

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 11-47
  4. Musical Scales

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 49-71
  5. Consonance and Dissonance of Harmonic Sounds

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 73-88
  6. Related Spectra and Scales

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 89-122
  7. A Bell, A Rock, A Crystal

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 123-145
  8. Adaptive Tunings

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 147-164
  9. The Gamelan

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 165-187
  10. Consonance-Based Musical Analysis

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 189-210
  11. From Tuning to Spectrum

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 211-233
  12. Spectral Mappings

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 235-257
  13. A “Music Theory” for 10-tet

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 259-270
  14. Speculation, Correlation, Interpretation, Conclusion

    • William A. Sethares
    Pages 271-279
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 281-345

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin — Madison, Madison, USA

    William A. Sethares

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale

  • Authors: William A. Sethares

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4177-8

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4177-8Published: 05 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 345

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Music, Engineering Acoustics, Acoustics, Engineering, general

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