Rethinking Harmony: Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale
2025-05-05
This book, *Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale*, challenges the traditional octave, exploring the relationship between timbre and sensory consonance/dissonance. Author William A. Sethares uses psychoacoustics to precisely define the relationship between spectra and tunings using dissonance curves, demonstrating applications in musical composition with concrete examples. The book includes sound examples on CD, the full text of a seminal article, and downloadable MP3s, covering topics like adaptive tuning and Thai classical music, offering a fresh perspective on musical creation.
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