Musical acoustics
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Dynamic Range Across Music Genres and the Perception of Dynamic Compression in Hearing-Impaired Listeners Open
Dynamic range compression serves different purposes in the music and hearing-aid industries. In the music industry, it is used to make music louder and more attractive to normal-hearing listeners. In the hearing-aid industry, it is used to…
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The structure of musical harmony as an ordered phase of sound: A statistical mechanics approach to music theory Open
A statistical mechanics approach shows how the fundamental structures of musical harmony emerge from disordered sound.
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Perception of music dynamics in concert hall acoustics Open
Dynamics is one of the principal means of expressivity in Western classical music. Still, preceding research on room acoustics has mostly neglected the contribution of music dynamics to the acoustic perception. This study investigates how …
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A landmark article on nonlinear time-domain modeling in musical acoustics Open
The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that have had a significant impact on the science and practice of acoustics.
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Auditory Sketches: Very Sparse Representations of Sounds Are Still Recognizable Open
Sounds in our environment like voices, animal calls or musical instruments are easily recognized by human listeners. Understanding the key features underlying this robust sound recognition is an important question in auditory science. Here…
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Nonsmooth contact dynamics for the numerical simulation of collisions in musical string instruments Open
Collisions in musical string instruments play a fundamental role in explaining the sound production in various instruments such as sitars, tanpuras, and electric basses. Contacts occurring during the vibration provide a nonlinear effect wh…
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A Computational Model of Tonal Tension Profile of Chord Progressions in the Tonal Interval Space Open
In tonal music, musical tension is strongly associated with musical expression, particularly with expectations and emotions. Most listeners are able to perceive musical tension subjectively, yet musical tension is difficult to be measured …
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Linearly-implicit schemes for collisions in musical acoustics based on energy quadratisation Open
Collision modelling represents an active field of research in musical acoustics. Common examples of collisions include the hammer-string interaction in the piano, the interaction of strings with fretboards and fingers, the membrane-wire in…
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Effects of wide dynamic-range compression on the perceived clarity of individual musical instruments Open
The effects of wide-dynamic-range compression (WDRC) on the ability of hearing-impaired subjects to hear out individual instruments or voices (called “sources”) in a mixture were explored. On each trial, the subjects were asked to judge th…
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Complex point source model to calculate the sound field radiated from musical instruments Open
A simple method is described to record the radiated sound of musical instruments and to extrapolate the sound field to distances further away from the source. This is achieved by considering instruments as complex point sources. It is demo…
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A minimal physics-based model for musical perception Open
Some people, entirely untrained in music, can listen to a song and replicate it on a piano with unnerving accuracy. What enables some to “hear” music so much better than others? Long-standing research confirms that part of the answer is un…
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Perception of loudness and envelopment for different orchestral dynamics Open
One of the main factors that makes listening to live concerts emotionally engaging is the dynamic changes in the music. Recent research has shown that concert hall acoustics can affect the perception of orchestral dynamics, but hardly any …
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Efficient Physics-Based Sound Synthesis Of The Piano Using Dsp Methods Open
Publication in the conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Tampere, Finland, 2000
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Acoustic Descriptors for Characterization of Musical Timbre Using the Fast Fourier Transform Open
The quantitative assessment of the musical timbre in an audio record is still an open-ended issue. Evaluating the musical timbre allows not only to establish precise musical parameters but also the recognition, classification of musical in…
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An Effective Optimization-Based Neural Network for Musical Note Recognition Open
Musical pitch estimation is used to recognize the musical note pitch or the fundamental frequency ( F 0 ) of an audio signal, which can be applied to a preprocessing part of many applications, such as sound separation and musical note tran…
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Active control and sound synthesis—two different ways to investigate the influence of the modal parameters of a guitar on its sound Open
The vibrational behavior of musical instruments is usually studied using physical modeling and simulations. Recently, active control has proven its efficiency to experimentally modify the dynamical behavior of musical instruments. This app…
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The link between the tonehole lattice cutoff frequency and clarinet sound radiation: a quantitative study Open
Musical instruments are said to have a personality, which we notice in the sound that they produce. The oscillation mechanism inside woodwinds is commonly studied, but the transmission from internal waveforms to radiated sound is often ove…
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Diotic and Dichotic Mechanisms of Discrimination Threshold in Musicians and Non-Musicians Open
The perception of harmonic complexes provides important information for musical and vocal communication. Numerous studies have shown that musical training and expertise are associated with better processing of harmonic complexes, however, …
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Music Maker: 3D Printing And Acoustics Curriculum Open
Music Maker is a free online resource that provides files for 3D printing woodwind and brass mouthpieces and tutorials for using those mouthpieces to learn about acoustics and music. The mouthpieces are designed to fit into standard plumbi…
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Measurements and time-domain simulations of multiphonics in the trombone Open
Multiphonic sounds of brass instruments are studied in this article. They are produced by playing a note on a brass instrument while simultaneously singing another note in the mouthpiece. This results in a peculiar sound, heard as a chord …
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Feedback and Feedforward Models of Musical Key Open
This study begins by drawing a distinction between two ways of framing the concept of musical key. Feedforward models understand key as arising from immediately apparent surface characteristics like the distribution of pitch classes or a m…
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Solving one-dimensional acoustic systems using the impedance translation theorem and equivalent circuits: A graduate level homework assignment Open
The natural frequency resonances and sound radiation from one-dimensional acoustic systems are of great interest in the study of musical instruments, human vocal tract effects on speech, automotive exhaust pipes, duct systems for temperatu…
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Inverse Doppler Effects in Pipe Instruments Open
Music is older than language, and for most of human history music holds our culture together. The pipe instrument is one of the most popular musical instruments of all time. Built on the foundation of previous flute and flute-like acoustic…
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Musical Gestures between Scores and Acoustics: A Creative Application to Orchestra Open
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2017. Major: Music. Advisor: Alex Lubet. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 87 pages.
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The Acoustics of Traditional Italian Mandolins and Their Relation with Soundboard Wood Properties Open
Stringed musical instruments, which have a long and rich worldwide cultural history, have slowly evolved from ancient lutes to contemporary instruments such as the Italian mandolin. The mandolin has been an iconic element of Italian musica…
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Extracting Vibration Characteristics and Performing Sound Synthesis of Acoustic Guitar to Analyze Inharmonicity Open
The produced sound quality of guitar primarily depends on vibrational characteristics of the resonance box. Also, the tonal quality is influenced by the correct combination of tempo along with pitch, harmony, and melody in order to find mu…
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A simple model of the Erhu soundbox Open
The erhu is a common, bowed, two-string instrument from China. Unlike the Western violin, it has received scant attention from the musical acoustics community, in spite of having comparable versatility and power. This paper outlines the st…
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The sound of music: determining Young’s modulus using a guitar string Open
When a new topic is introduced in the curriculum, teachers seek various ways to teach students the related concepts. For the novel topic ‘materials’ in the revised Dutch curriculum, I developed an experiment in which students determine You…
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Generation of a reference radiation pattern of string instruments using automatic excitation and acoustic centering Open
Radiation patterns of musical instruments are important for the understanding of music perception in concert halls, and may be used to improve the plausibility of virtual acoustic systems. Many attempts have been performed to measure the s…
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A method for automatic detection of tongued and slurred note transitions in clarinet playing Open
This study offers a simple method to characterize two transition types in passages of music in order to automatically distinguish slurred transitions from tongued transitions in musical settings. Data were recorded from musicians playing a…