The Musical Control of Sound Color

Slawson, A. Wayne

doi:10.7202/1013828ar

Cited by 7 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The color-music experiment was conducted only for musical performances, and the musical scores of the color-music experiment did not use colors for recording music notation (Campen, 1997). Other studies have mentioned color and music (Bernard, 1986; Garner, 1978; Klein, 1930; Pridmore, 1992; Slawson, 1985). Collopy (2000) pioneered the “Lumia” art form to present visual art as music and incorporated it into the three dimensions of color, form, and motion.…”

Section: Musical Notation Using Colorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A proposal of a color music notation system on a single melody for music beginners

Kuo

Chuang

2013

International Journal of Music Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Music teachers often encounter obstructions in teaching beginners in music reading. Conventional notational symbols require beginners to spend significant amount of time in memorizing, which discourages learning at early stage. This article proposes a newly-developed color music notation system that may improve the recognition of the staff and the numbered musical notation for music beginners. The focus is on single melodies that are relatively easy for music beginners to read and to play, which may increase students’ confidence at the first step of music learning. The color music notation system that associates color music scores with color and music synesthesia by human vision and audition is proposed. Pitch, duration, range, and intensity of music elements are coded as colors, lattices, graphs, and shape sizes, respectively. Based on the 12-tone equal temperament, we adopt the Itten color wheel and the natural color system with 12 primary colors to retain colors accurately when the notation is reproduced. Hopefully, beginners can use the novel colored music scores to read and to play music quickly, accurately, and confidently.

show abstract

Section: Musical Notation Using Colorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A proposal of a color music notation system on a single melody for music beginners

Kuo

Chuang

2013

International Journal of Music Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The findings from music and emotion research suggest that texture and instrumentation profoundly affect the listening experience, but a lacuna exists in the field of music theory related to orchestration, resulting in a limited understanding of the function and perception of large-scale orchestral shaping (Boulez, 1987; Sandell, 1995; Slawson, 1985). Goodchild (2016a, 2016b) has proposed a typology of orchestral gestures based on large-scale timbral and textural changes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring emotional responses to orchestral gestures

2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Research on emotional responses to music indicates that prominent changes in instrumentation and timbre elicit strong responses in listeners. However, there are few theories related to orchestration that would assist in interpreting these empirical findings. This article investigates listeners’ emotional responses to four types of orchestral gestures – large-scale timbral and textural changes that occur in a coordinated, goal-directed manner – through an exploratory experiment that collected continuous responses of emotional intensity for musician and nonmusician listeners. A time series regression analysis was used to predict changes in emotional responses by modeling changes in several musical features, including instrumental texture, spectral centroid, loudness, and tempo. We demonstrate the application of a new visualization tool that compiles the emotional intensity ratings with score-based and performance-based musical features for qualitative and quantitative analysis. [...

show abstract

“…-. Human speech science has been a valuable source of inspiration for musical timbre research. Namely, some of the findings concerning vowel perception seem to be -although with some caution -applicable to questions of musical sound color [37]. Now that I have given a brief survey of the most important methods applied in the musical acoustics research of sound timbre, I would like to try to illustrate a few of them by using examples from the perception research of timbre and sound quality of tenor trombones made at ~Z O R T Prague in the eighties.…”

Section: Historical Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodological approaches to the investigation of musical timbre

Melka¹

1994

J. Phys. IV France

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Most of the difficulties connected with verbal determination and quantification of the phenomenon called "timbre" or "sound colorw are caused by the multidimensional nature of this perceptual attribute of sound. After giving a brief historical review of the methodological evolution of the research on the perception of musical timbre, this paper illustrates some of the appropriate psychoacoustical research methods and associated statistical techniques by use of examples from the investigations of trombone timbre and overall sound quality made in WZORT, Prague in the course of the last decade. The verbal timbre descriptions obtained in a postal survey and through interviews, as well as the non-verbal data (gained both in a series of listening tests and through the spectral analysis of trombone tones), were processed by various multivariate statistical methods such as hierarchical clustering, factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, multiple linear regression, etc. The resultant findings are compared and discussed.

show abstract

The Musical Control of Sound Color

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

A proposal of a color music notation system on a single melody for music beginners

A proposal of a color music notation system on a single melody for music beginners

Exploring emotional responses to orchestral gestures

Methodological approaches to the investigation of musical timbre

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About