An investigation of musical timbre: Uncovering salient semantic descriptors and perceptual dimensions

Proceedings of the 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 807-812

  Zacharakis, Asteris ^a   Pastiadis, Kostantinos ^b   Papadelis, Georgios ^b   Reiss, Joshua D ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTORS; FACTOR AND CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LISTENING TESTS; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; MUSICAL SOUNDS; MUSICAL TIMBRES; PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84873572972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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