Clarifying spectral and temporal dimensions of musical instrument timbre

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-22

  Hall, Michael D ^a   Beauchamp, James W ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ENVELOPES; BINARY FEATURES; HIGHER HARMONICS; INSTRUMENT IDENTIFICATIONS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SOUNDS; RELATIVE AMPLITUDES; RISE TIME; SPECTRAL CHANGES; SPECTRAL DIMENSIONS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; TEMPORAL CUES; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LOW PASS FILTERS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 65349167812     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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