Change and continuity in sound analysis
a review of concepts in regard to musical acoustics, music perception, and transcription
pp. 71-111
in: Rolf Bader (ed), Sound - perception - performance, Berlin, Springer, 2013Abstract
Over the past decades, a broad range of software and hardware tools has become available suited to perform sound analysis both in the time domain and in the frequency. This chapter reviews a number of former and current concepts in regard to frequency measurement, melographic techniques and transcription, pitch perception and consonance as well as analysis of timbral parameters.