Empirical Musicology Review: Volume 3, Number 3 (2008): Recent submissions
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Comparative Analysis of Music Recordings from Western and Non-Western traditions by Automatic Tonal Feature Extraction
Gómez, Emilia; Herrera, Perfecto ( 2008-07 )The automatic analysis of large musical corpora by means of computational models overcomes some limitations of manual analysis, and the unavailability of scores for most existing music makes necessary to work with audio ... -
Commentary on "The Happy Xylophone: Acoustics Affordances Restrict An Emotional Palate" by Michael Schutz, David Huron, Kristopher Keeton, & Greg Loewer
Eitan, Zohar ( 2008-07 )In this commentary, I raise several issues of method and presentation and suggest a number of follow-up experiments associated with some of these issues. Broad suggestions are also made (or rather preached): the need ... -
The Happy Xylophone: Acoustics Affordances Restrict An Emotional Palate
Schutz, Michael; Huron, David; Keeton, Kristopher; Loewer, Gred ( 2008-07 )In many ways, the structure of music resembles that of language, including the acoustic cues used to communicate emotion. In speech, sadness is imparted through a combination of low fundamental frequency, dark timbre, ... -
Comparison of Word Intelligibility in Spoken and Sung Phrases
Collister, Lauren B.; Huron, David ( 2008-07 )Twenty listeners were exposed to spoken and sung passages in English produced by three trained vocalists. Passages included representative words extracted from a large database of vocal lyrics, including both popular ... -
Seeing Music? What musicians need to know about vision
Schutz, Michael ( 2008-07 )Music is inherently an auditory art form, rooted in sound, and generally analyzed in terms of its acoustic properties. However, as the process of hearing is affected by seeing, visual information does in fact play an ...