“You Can’t Play a Sad Song on the Banjo:” Acoustic Factors in the Judgment of Instrument Capacity to Convey Sadness
Forty-four Western-enculturated musicians completed two studies. The first group was asked to judge the relative sadness of forty-four familiar Western instruments. An independent group was asked to assess a number of acoustical properties for those same instruments. Using the estimated acoustical p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2014-05-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v9i1.4085 |