Musical Consonance and Cochlear Mechanics

Cover

Imprint

Preface

Contents

PART ONE: SENSORY-CONSONANCE EXPERIMENTS

1 Harmonic Complex Tones

2 Equal-Temperament Semitones, Cents, and Tuning Units

3 One-Man Experiments (Complex Tones)

4 One-Man Experiments (Sine Tones)

5 The Experiment of Georg Kaestner

6 One-Man Championships

7 The Experiment of Donald E. Hall and Joan Taylor Hess

8 The Experiment of Joos Vos

9 Paired Comparisons of Peak Heights (I)

10 Paired Comparisons of Peak Heights (II)

11 Averaged Experimental Pleasantness Values

PART TWO: COCHLEAR MECHANICS

12 Structure of the Human Cochlea

13 Travelling Waves in Passive Cochlear Box Models

14 The Cochlear Amplifier

PART THREE: CONSONANCE THEORIES

15 The Helmholtz Consonance Theory

16 A Modified Consonance Theory

References

Index