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Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Kai Siedenburg
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-07 - Publisher: Springer

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Roughly defined as any property other than pitch, duration, and loudness that allows two sounds to be distinguished, timbre is a foundational aspect of hearing.
Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: William A. Sethares
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-05 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions of consonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre. This also relates to musical scale:
The Orchestral Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Emily I. Dolan
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment. Using Haydn as a
The Oxford Handbook of Timbre
Language: en
Pages: 740
Authors: Emily I. Dolan
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated dur
The Relentless Pursuit of Tone
Language: en
Pages: 410
Authors: Robert Fink
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide arra