Verbalization of Timbre
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MPCL Bibliographies: Verbalization of Timbre
Compiled at the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory (MPCL) — McGill University.
Updated March 28, 2022.
Alluri, V., & Toiviainen, P. (2012). Effect of enculturation on the semantic and acoustic correlates of polyphonic timbre. Music Perception, 29(3), 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2012.29.3.297
Asada, M., & Ohgushi, K. (1991). Perceptual analyses of Ravel’s “Bolero.” Music Perception, 8(3), 241–249. https://doi.org/10.2307/40285501
Biber, D. (2009). Corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses of language variation and use. In B. Heine & H. Narrog (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544004.013.0008
Darke, G. (2005). Assessment of timbre using verbal attributes. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Montreal, Quebec.
David, S., Dubois, D., Rouby, C., & Schaal, B. (1997). L’expression des odeurs en français: Analyse lexicale et représentation cognitive [The expression of odors in French: Lexical analysis and cognitive representation]. Intellectica, 24, 51–83.
Disley, A. C., & Howard, D. M. (2004). Spectral correlates of timbral semantics relating to the pipe organ. Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH-QPSR, 46(1), 25–40.
Faure, A. (2000). Des sons aux mots, comment parle-t-on du timbre musical ? Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Humphrey, E. J., Glennon, A. P., & Bello, J. P. (2011). Non-Linear Semantic Embedding for Organizing Large Instrument Sample Libraries. 2, 142–147. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA.2011.105
Kendall, R. A., & Carterette, E. C. (1992). Verbal attributes of simultaneous wind instrument timbres. II: Adjectives induced from Piston’s Orchestration. Music Perception, 10, 469–502.
Kendall, R. A., & Carterette, E. C. (1993). Verbal attributes of simultaneous wind instrument timbres: I. von Bismarck’s adjectives. Music Perception, 10(4), 445–467. https://doi.org/10.2307/40285583
Lavoie, M. (2008). Le timbre intra-instrumental en musicologie: Proposition de méthodes d’analyse dérivées de la linguistique [Thesis]. Université de Montréal.
Marks, L. E. (1996). On Perceptual Metaphors. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 11(1), 39–66. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327868ms1101_3
Murari, M., Roda, A., Canazza, S., De Poli, G., & Da Pos, O. (2015). Is Vivaldi smooth and takete? Non-verbal sensory scales for describing music qualities. Journal of New Music Research, 44(4), 359–372. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2015.1101475
Nosulenko, V. N., Samoylenko, E. S., & McAdams, S. (1994). Analysis of verbal descriptions in a comparative study of musical timbres. Journal de Physique, 4(C5), 637–640. https://doi.org/10.1051/Jp4:19945137
Poitrenaud, S. (1995). The procope semantic network: An alternative to action grammars. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 42, 31–69.
Rioux, V., & Vastfjall, D. (2001). Analyses of verbal descriptions of the sound quality of a flue organ pipe. Musicae Scientiae, 5(1), 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1177/102986490100500104
Samoylenko, E., McAdams, S., & Nosulenko, V. (1996)Samoylenko, E., McAdams, S., & Nosulenko, V. (1996). Systematic analysis of verbalizations produced in comparing musical timbres. International Journal of Psychology, 31(6), 255–278. https://doi.org/10.1080/002075996401025
Solomon, L. N. (1958). Semantic approach to the perception of complex sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 30(5), 421–425. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1909632
Stepanek, J. (2002). Evaluation of timbre of violin tones according to selected verbal attributes. 32nd International Congress of Acoustics, Slovakia.
Stepanek, J. (2002). The study of violin timbre using spontaneous verbal description and verbal attribute rating. Forum Acusticum Sevilla.
Stepanek, J. (2006). Musical sound timbre: Verbal description and dimensions. 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-06), Montreal, Canada.
Taylor, I. J., Gandy, L. J., & Dark, G. (1974). Linguistic description and auditory perception. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 38, 703–707. https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1974.38.3.703
von Bismarck, G. (1974). Sharpness as an attribute of the timbre of steady sounds. Acustica, 30(3), 159–172.
von Bismarck, G. (1974). Timbre of steady sounds: A factorial investigation of its verbal attributes. Acta Acustica United with Acustica, 30(3), 146–159.
Wallmark, Z. (2018). A corpus analysis of timbre semantics in orchestration treatises. Psychology of Music. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618768102
Wallmark, Z., & Kendall, R. A. (2018). Describing Sound: The Cognitive Linguistics of Timbre. In E. I. Dolan & A. Rehding (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Timbre. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.013.14
Wedin, L. (1972). A multidimensional study of perceptual‐emotional qualities in music. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 13(1), 241–257. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1972.tb00072.x
Wright, P. (1971). Linguistic description of auditory signals. Journal of Applied Psychology, 55(3), 244–250. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0031025
Zacharakis, A., Pastiadis, K., & Reiss, J. D. (2014). An interlanguage study of musical timbre semantic dimensions and their acoustic correlates. Music Perception, 31(4), 339–358.
Zacharakis, A., Pastiadis, K., & Reiss, J. D. (2015). An Interlanguage Unification of Musical Timbre. Music Perception, 32(4), 394–412.