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Author:   William A. Sethares
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
ISBN:  

9781447141761

ISBN 10:   1447141768
Pages:   363
Publication Date:   12 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Octave is Dead... Long Live the Octave.- 2. The Science of Sound.- 3. Musical Scales.- 4. Consonance and Dissonance of Harmonic Sounds.- 5. Related Spectra and Scales.- 6. A Bell, A Rock, A Crystal.- 7. Adaptive Tunings.- 8. The Gamelan.- 9. Consonance-Based Musical Analysis.- 10. From Tuning to Spectrum.- 11. Spectral Mappings.- 12. A Music Theory for 10-tet.- 13. Speculation, Correlation, Interpretation, Conclusion.- Appendix A. Mathematics of Beats.- Appendix B. Ratios Make Cents.- Appendix C. Speaking of Spectra.- C.1 Spectrum of a Sine Wave.- C.2 Steady State Analysis.- C.3 Analysis of the Attack.- C.4 Pads and Windows.- C.5 Finding Spectral Peaks.- Appendix D. Additive Synthesis.- Appendix E. How to Dray Dissonance Curves.- Appendix F. Properties of Dissonance Curves.- Appendix G. Behavior of Adaptive Tunings.- Appendix H. Tables of Scales.- Appendix I. Classical Music of Thailand.- Discography.- Sound Examples.

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