Auditory Dissonance: Kameoka & Kuriyagawa

[Keith Mashinter <kmashint@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am writing an undergraduate research paper on auditory dissonance, using
Kameoka and Kuriyagawa's 1969 papers on Consonance Theory: Part I and II as
a starting point.  I have been trying to replicate their calculated results
using the formulae they provide, but have had only limited success.  In
particular, I can duplicate the results of their calculations for tones
comprised of harmonics with constant amplitudes, but when I varied the
sound pressure levels of the partials, there were large descrepicies
between my results and K&K's.

If anyone else has attempted to repeat Kameoka and Kuriyagawa's
calculations in their 1969 papers, I would greatly appreciate information
from them.

Also, I would appreciate a response from anyone who has further insight or
interest in the subject of auditory dissonance, and who can point me to
further information.

Below my signature is a list of the papers I am currently reading under the
direction of my professor, Dr. David Huron, at the University of Waterloo.

Thank you for your time.

\|/-Keith Mashinter         e-mail: kmashint@descartes.uwaterloo.ca

A. Kameoka and M. Kuriyagawa, "Consonance Theory Part I: Consonance of
Dyads", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1969a, Vol. 45(6),
1451-1459

A. Kameoka and M. Kuriyagawa, "Consonance Theory Part II: Consonance of
Complex Tones and Its Calculation Method", The Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 1969b, Vol. 45(6), 1460-1469

R. Plomp and W. J. M. Levelt, "Tonal Consonance and Critical Bandwidth",
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1965, Vol. 38, 548-560

W. Hutchinson and L. Knopoff, "The Acoustical Component of Western
Consonance", Interface, 1978, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1-29

W. Hutchinson and L. Knopoff, "The Significance of the acooustic component
of consonance in western triads", Journal of Musicological Research, 1979,
Vol. 3, 5-22

B. Glasberg and B. Moore, "Derivation of auditory filter shapes from
notched-noise data", Hearing Research, 1990, Vo. 47, 103-138

D. Greenwood, "Critical bandwidth and consonance in relation to cochlear
frequency-position coordinates", Hearing Research, 1991, Vol. 54, 164-208

D. Huron, "Tonal Consonance versus Tonal Fusion in Polyphonic Sonorities",
Music Perception, Winter 1991, Vol. 9, No. 2, 135-154

D. Huron and P. Sellmer, "Critical Bands and the Spelling of Vertical
Sonorities", Music Perception, Winter 1992, Vol. 10, No. 2, 129-150