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Re: [AUDITORY] Numerical perceptual ratings for consonant and dissonant pitch intervals

Hi Ani,

Rossing has a nice summary of consonance vs dissonance in his Science of
Sound. He refers to Plomp and Levelt "Tonal consonance and critical
bandwidth", JASA (1965). This all harks back to Helmoltz's Sensations of
Tone in the mid-1800's, where I think there might be a graph of 
consonance vs frequency ratio.

Best,
     Jim

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From: "Patel, Aniruddh D." <a.patel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 01:40:40 +0000
To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Numerical perceptual ratings for consonant and dissonant pitch intervals

Dear List,

I'm looking for published numerical perceptual ratings of consonant and
dissonant pitch intervals from Western tonal music. An example of such
ratings (from McDermott, Lehr, and Oxenham 2010, Current Biology) is
in Figure 1aon this page:

http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/consonance_examples/index.html

I'm interested in numerical ratings for pitch dyads (e.g., minor second,
perfect fifth) made from synthetic harmonic complex tones or real
musical instrument tones, not pure tones. Ideally the ratings would
include all dyadic pitch intervals between 1 and 11 semitones in size.

McDermott et al. 2010 report such data in their Figure 1a, but surely
there are earlier papers? Any history buffs out there know the earliest
such paper?

Thanks,

Ani Patel

Aniruddh D. Patel
Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Tufts University

Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind, & Consciousness

http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/people/patel/