Commentary on Keith Mashinter's "Calculating Sensory Dissonance: Some Discrepancies Arising from the Models of Kameoka & Kuriyagawa, and Hutchinson & Knopoff"

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2006-10

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Empirical Musicology Review

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Mashinter’s (2006) mathematical model of sensory dissonance neglects the dependence of roughness on waveform, the role of masking, the distribution of roughness across critical bands, the possible positive contribution of fusion or toneness to euphony, and the familiarity and music-theoretical functions of a sonority. Of course not all these aspects can reasonably be included in a model, but they can affect the data with which its predictions are compared.

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consonance, dissonance, perception, sensory, enculturation

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Empirical Musicology Review, v1 n4 (October 2006), 201-203