23 Jul
2010
23 Jul
'10
8:05 p.m.
lieven moors wrote:
On 07/22/2010 11:25 PM, Albert Graef wrote:
That's the one that I mean (most recent edition):
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Psychophysics-Music-Introduction/dp/038709470…
If nothing else, it should point you to the original literature that's
relevant to your question and see how these people went about their
experiments.
lieven moors wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. I'll see if I can find a copy... ...continuation of truncated mail (does anyone
know why this happens?)
Probably it's the second "From" line; looks like your mail
client is
confused by this.
Concerning your question: As other have remarked, that is a very
intricate question which is studied in psychoacoustics, so one of the
requisite textbooks on the subject (like Roederer's "Psychophysics")
Do you think there is a direct connection between
frequency-specific
sensitivity, and the SPL range the ear can tolerate for specific
frequencies?
That's in the F/M curves as well. There have also been experiments to
identify the ranges that are relevant to language and music. Indeed
there has been *lots* of scientific work done in this area since the
1960s. Of course all these results are statistical as they relate
objective physical measures with subjective levels of stimuli, but that
doesn't mean that it's all hogwash. ;-)
Albert
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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag