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  2. Culture in music cognition - Wikipedia

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    Flute timbre supports the detection of peace, whereas string timbre aids anger identification. Happy and sad assessments, on the other hand, rely primarily on relatively "low-level" structural information such as tempo. Both low-level cues (e.g., slow tempo) and timbre aid in the detection of peaceful music, but only timbre cued anger ...

  3. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

  4. Timbral listening - Wikipedia

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    The composition of timbre-centered music in the nomadic communities of Tuva involves mimicry of sounds heard in the environment. Timbral listening is a fundamental component of listening to, understanding and being able to correctly perform this music using vocal techniques such as throat singing "khoomei" and harmonic producing instruments such as the jaw harp, bzaanchy, shoor, qyl qiyak, qyl ...

  5. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    Music theory is the study of theoretical ... effect on the timbre of instruments and other phenomena. ... with emotional communication. The elements of music that ...

  6. Temporal envelope and fine structure - Wikipedia

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    These temporal changes are responsible for several aspects of auditory perception, including loudness, pitch and timbre perception and spatial hearing. Complex sounds such as speech or music are decomposed by the peripheral auditory system of humans into narrow frequency bands. The resulting narrow-band signals convey information at different ...

  7. Musical expression - Wikipedia

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    Musical expression is the art of playing or singing with a personal response to the music. [1] At a practical level, this means making appropriate use of dynamics, phrasing, timbre and articulation to bring the music to life. [2] Composers may specify these aspects of expression to a greater or lesser extent in the notation of their musical score.

  8. Elements of music - Wikipedia

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    Some definitions refer to music as a score, or a composition: [18] [7] [19] music can be read as well as heard, and a piece of music written but never played is a piece of music notwithstanding. According to Edward E. Gordon the process of reading music , at least for trained musicians, involves a process, called "inner hearing" or "audiation ...

  9. Articulation (music) - Wikipedia

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    They can also modify an event's timbre, dynamics, and pitch. [1] Musical articulation is analogous to the articulation of speech, and during the Baroque and Classical periods it was taught by comparison to oratory. [2] Western music has a set of traditional articulations that were standardized in the 19th century [3] and remain widely used. [1]