An interlanguage study of musical timbre semantic dimensions and their acoustic correlates

Music Perception

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 339-358

  Zacharakis, Asterios ^a,b   Pastiadis, Konstantinos ^a   Reiss, Joshua D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic correlates; CATPCA; Musical timbre semantics; Timbre spaces; Verbal attribute magnitude estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898027386     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/MP.2014.31.4.339     Document Type: Article

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