Re: Melodic consonance ....

[Alexandra Hettergott <a.hettergott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: KEVIN AUSTIN <KAUSTIN@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA>

>Regarding ordering melodic intervals, perhaps _consonance_ is a poor
term.
>Maybe 'pleasantness' (or possibly something resembling 'stability' or
>'weight') could be considered more appropriate. I also count 25
>within-octave melodic intervals (ascending and descending having very
>different characteristics).
Hi Kevin :
I would rather still prefer using the term "pleasantness" while
referring to sounds other than those rooted in a harmonic (tonic)
context, like in determining the extent of annoyance with regard to
environmental sound, whereas sticking to the notion of "musical
consonance" as (music)theoretically outlining what from the
psychoacoustic angle is related to the sensation of sensory consonance
(dissonance). Apart from Kameoka, Kuriyagawa (1969), Aures (1985), and,
of course, Terhardt (1974 ; 1976) it is the tables (intervals within two
octaves, c1-c7) in Hutchinson, Knopoff (1978) I am finding particularly
instructive in that regard, however its being restricted to dyads only.
As to "weight" I should perhaps prefer to referring to something like
spectral energy distribution (over time), or spectral centroid (I'd love
to have this like an F0-track over time), by this term.
Briefly,
Alexandra Hettergott.
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