Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Numerical perceptual ratings for consonant and dissonant pitch intervals From: "James W. Beauchamp" <jwbeauch@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 23:28:29 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hi Ani, Rossing has a nice summary of consonance vs dissonance in his Science of Sound. He refers to Plomp and Levelt "Tonal consonance and critical bandwidth", JASA (1965). This all harks back to Helmoltz's Sensations of Tone in the mid-1800's, where I think there might be a graph of consonance vs frequency ratio. Best, Jim James W. Beauchamp Research Professor Professor Emeritus of Music and Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: jwbeauch@xxxxxxxx (also: jwbeauch@xxxxxxxx) phone: +1-217-344-3307 Skype: jwbeauch WWW: http://cmp.music.illinois.edu/beaucham http://www.ece.illinois.edu/directory/profile/jwbeauch https://music.illinois.edu/faculty/james-w-beauchamp You wrote: From: "Patel, Aniruddh D." <a.patel@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 01:40:40 +0000 To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx Subject: Numerical perceptual ratings for consonant and dissonant pitch intervals Dear List, I'm looking for published numerical perceptual ratings of consonant and dissonant pitch intervals from Western tonal music. An example of such ratings (from McDermott, Lehr, and Oxenham 2010, Current Biology) is in Figure 1aon this page: http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/consonance_examples/index.html I'm interested in numerical ratings for pitch dyads (e.g., minor second, perfect fifth) made from synthetic harmonic complex tones or real musical instrument tones, not pure tones. Ideally the ratings would include all dyadic pitch intervals between 1 and 11 semitones in size. McDermott et al. 2010 report such data in their Figure 1a, but surely there are earlier papers? Any history buffs out there know the earliest such paper? Thanks, Ani Patel Aniruddh D. Patel Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Tufts University Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind, & Consciousness http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/people/patel/