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  2. Temporal dynamics of music and language - Wikipedia

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    A 2008 study by Koelsch, Sallat and Friederici found that language impairment may also affect the ability to process music. Children with specific language impairments, or SLIs were not as proficient at matching tones to one another or at keeping tempo with a simple metronome as children with no language disabilities. This highlights the fact ...

  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. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Klangfarbenmelodie - Wikipedia

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    The effect creates a sense of a compound melody, where the pitch content moves more swiftly than the timbres. [16] The music feels contrapuntally dense while it is in fact quite sparse. [ 17 ] : 508 In Schoenberg's 1951 letter, he wrote, "My conception of Klangfarbenmelodie would have been fulfilled in Webern’s compositions only in the ...

  8. Musical tone - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally in Western music, a musical tone is a steady periodic sound. A musical tone is characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity (or loudness), and timbre (or quality). [1] The notes used in music can be more complex than musical tones, as they may include aperiodic aspects, such as attack transients, vibrato, and envelope modulation.

  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]