Exploring violin sound quality: Investigating english timbre descriptors and correlating resynthesized acoustical modifications with perceptual properties

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 783-794

  Fritz, Claudia ^a   Blackwell, Alan F ^b   Cross, Ian ^b   Woodhouse, Jim ^b   Moore, Brian C J ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTORS; IN-BAND; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; PERCEPTUAL PROPERTIES; SOUND QUALITY; WIDE-BAND;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MUSIC; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ATTITUDE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84855958722     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3651790     Document Type: Article

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