Musical sound timbre: Verbal description and dimensions

Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 121-126

  Štěpánek, Jan ^a  

^a The Stentor Institute   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOACOUSTIC;

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; EXPERT EXPERIENCE; EXPERT OPINION; LISTENING TESTS; MUSICAL SOUNDS; PIPE ORGAN; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; TOP DOWN APPROACHES;

MUSIC;

EID: 84872695835     PISSN: 24136700     EISSN: 24136689     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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