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Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales

Raja Marjieh, Peter M. C. Harrison, Harin Lee, Fotini Deligiannaki, Nori Jacoby
Nature Communications Summary & key facts 2024 16 citations

The paper reports five big online studies that collected 235,440 human ratings to test how the sound quality (timbre) of tones affects which note combinations people find pleasant (consonant). The authors show that changing the spectrum of tones can shift listeners’ consonance preferences, sometimes so much that people prefer inharmonic…

Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Music and Audio Processing Neuroscience and Music Perception
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