What Makes an Instrument Sound Sad? Commentary on Huron, Anderson, and Shanahan

Huron, Anderson, and Shanahan investigated the hypothesis that instruments that are deemed most capable of expressing sadness would also be judged better able to generate acoustic features similar to those used to convey sadness in speech. The judgments of these acoustic features accounted for appro...

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Main Author: Jonna K. Vuoskoski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2014-05-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v9i1.4086