Critical bandwidth is the psychoacoustic basis of consonance and dissonance.
Evidence
The psychoacoustic basis behind consonance and dissonance relates to critical bandwidth, which provides a means for determining the degree of consonance (or dissonance) of musical intervals. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 934
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Names critical bandwidth as the mechanism linking perception to interval.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: exactly how does critical bandwidth quantify consonance across different intervals?
Related
- Consonance judgments rest on psychoacoustic critical bandwidth (similarity 0.87)
- Interval consonance ranking derives from critical-bandwidth proximity between harmonics (similarity 0.85)
- Critical bandwidth corresponds to the masker frequency range that fills a single auditory filter (similarity 0.84)
- Critical bandwidth marks the point where noise loudness begins to grow with bandwidth (similarity 0.83)
- Peak dissonance between two tones occurs at a quarter critical band separation (similarity 0.83)
- Critical bands are the most important psychoacoustic principle for music perception (similarity 0.83)
- Consonance and dissonance judgments stem from critical bandwidth mechanics (similarity 0.83)
- Critical-band rate correlates with pitch, frequency discrimination, and basilar-membrane position. (similarity 0.82)
- The critical band concept is the key to understanding perceived pitch, loudness, and timbre (similarity 0.82)
- Consonance perception is continuous and not tied to musical intervals (similarity 0.81)
- The ear groups sound into critical frequency bands that shape loudness perception (similarity 0.80)
- Critical bandwidth varies a hundredfold across the audible range. (similarity 0.80)
- The critical-band-rate scale mirrors hearing better than raw frequency (similarity 0.80)
- A sound’s bandwidth independently affects how loud it sounds. (similarity 0.80)
- Sensory consonance depends on roughness, sharpness, and tonalness (similarity 0.79)