Title: Sound color /
Authors: Slawson, Wayne.
Date: 1985
Publisher: University of California Press,
Physical description: xxv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm +
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Chapter 1: Precursors and premises. Previous studies of timbre or sound color ; Formal requirements of sound-color theory ; Timbre versus sound color : limiting the scope ; The principal questions -- Chapter 2 : A theory of sound color. The source/filter model : three examples ; Resonances and the spectrum envelope ; The dimensions of sound color ; Operations on sound color -- Chapter 3 : Evidence from auditory physiology. Anatomy of the auditory system ; Frequency analysis in the periphery : classical views ; Resonance analysis ; F-pattern detectors ; Differentiation of source from filter ; Dimensions and operations ; Open questions : a model and some proposed physiological research --^ Chapter 4 : Evidence from psychoacoustics. Limitations of psychoacoustic methods ; Psychoacoustics of filter systems ; Psychoacoustics of source characteristics ; Psychoacoustic comparisons of source and filter characteristics ; Psychoacoustics of the sound-color dimensions ; Psychoacoustics and the sound-color operations -- Chapter 5 : Evidence from speech and cognitive science. Limitations : "active" theories of speech recognition ; Perception of vowels and sound colors ; Dimensions of sound color : multidimensional scaling of speech and non-speech ; Sound color operations : analogies from cognitive psychology -- Chapter 6 : Musical evidence: sound color in electronic music. Limitations of music-analytic evidence ; Independent musical control of sound color ; Evidence for the dimensions ; Operations on sound color? ; A special case : Stockhausen's Kontakte ; Vocal music and the sound color theory ; Timbre pieces organized in alternative ways --^ Chapter 7 : Composition with sound color. Closure, normality, and cyclic notation ; Properties of some normal sound-color collections ; Multiple operations on the normal, nine-element collection ; The composition colors -- Appendix : Using filters to control sound color. Filters in the analog electronic music studio ; Filters in computer music.
Notes: Sound discs in pocket. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Composition (Music); Music--Acoustics and physics.; Music--Psychological aspects.; Sound.; Tone color (Music)