Specifying spectra for musical scales

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2422-2431

  Sethares, William A ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONSONANT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TUNING CURVE;

EID: 0030829792     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419604     Document Type: Article

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