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Studies in Musical Acoustics and PsychoacousticsVowel Quality in Violin Sounds—A Timbre Analysis of Italian Masterpieces

Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics: Vowel Quality in Violin Sounds—A Timbre... [This chapter proposes the use of vowel qualityVowel quality (VQ) as a perception-based timbre descriptor for violin sounds. When asked to imitate a pitched sound with their own voices, listeners are likely to match an appropriate vowel to what they hear. The applied vowel represents a rough image of what is perceived by listeners, and the related VQ can be used as an intelligible timbre descriptor. The corresponding automated extraction of VQ from sounds follows the state of the art in speech analysis; however, the methods are amended to process stringed sounds. The automated VQ extraction agrees with subjective assessments. The objective is to assess violins by using their best sound examples, which are usually achieved in professional live performances. The impact of different professional musicians on variations in VQ is found to be low. The same holds for the impact of different recording distances in a given room. The investigated Italian masterpieces reveal the quality of front vowels. VQ representations present similarities among violins from the same maker and differences among violins from different makers. This result can also be heard.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Studies in Musical Acoustics and PsychoacousticsVowel Quality in Violin Sounds—A Timbre Analysis of Italian Masterpieces

Part of the Current Research in Systematic Musicology Book Series (volume 4)
Editors: Schneider, Albrecht
Mores, Robert
Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics — Dec 27, 2016
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
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978-3-319-47291-1
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223 –245
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10.1007/978-3-319-47292-8_8
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Abstract

[This chapter proposes the use of vowel qualityVowel quality (VQ) as a perception-based timbre descriptor for violin sounds. When asked to imitate a pitched sound with their own voices, listeners are likely to match an appropriate vowel to what they hear. The applied vowel represents a rough image of what is perceived by listeners, and the related VQ can be used as an intelligible timbre descriptor. The corresponding automated extraction of VQ from sounds follows the state of the art in speech analysis; however, the methods are amended to process stringed sounds. The automated VQ extraction agrees with subjective assessments. The objective is to assess violins by using their best sound examples, which are usually achieved in professional live performances. The impact of different professional musicians on variations in VQ is found to be low. The same holds for the impact of different recording distances in a given room. The investigated Italian masterpieces reveal the quality of front vowels. VQ representations present similarities among violins from the same maker and differences among violins from different makers. This result can also be heard.]

Published: Dec 27, 2016

Keywords: Vocal Tract; Human Voice; Voice Signal; Spectral Power Distribution; Plate Mode

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