1. Perception of musical tension for nontonal orchestral timbres and its relation to psychoacoustic roughness
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Daniel Pressnitzer, Stephen McAdams, Joshua Fineberg, Suzanne Winsberg, Equipe Perception et cognition musicales, Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (STMS), Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ircam, ircam
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Adult ,timbre ,Adolescent ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Surface finish ,Musical ,[INFO] Computer Science [cs] ,050105 experimental psychology ,060404 music ,Rhythm ,Perception ,Psychophysics ,Reaction Time ,Humans ,orchestration ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,Psychoacoustics ,General Psychology ,media_common ,roughness ,Communication ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,06 humanities and the arts ,Perceptual salience ,Middle Aged ,Sensory Systems ,musical tension ,Auditory Perception ,Cues ,Psychology ,business ,Timbre ,0604 arts ,Music ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
cote interne IRCAM: Pressnitzer99a; /; National audience; Can tension in nontonal music be expressed without dynamic or rhythmic cues? Perceptual theories of tonal harmonypredict that psychoacoustic roughness plays an importantrole in the perception of this tension. We chose a set oforchestrated chords from a nontonal piece and investigatedlisteners' judgments of musical tension and roughness.Paired comparisons yielded psychophysical scales of tensionand roughness. Two experiments established distinct levelsof these two attributes across chords. A model simulationreproduced the experimental roughness measures. The resultsindicate that nontonal tension could be perceivedconsistently on the basis of timbral differences and wascorrelated to roughness, the correlation being stronger asthe perceptual salience of other attributes (such as high-pitched tones or tonal intervals) was reduced.
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- 1999