N2 - In Western music culture instruments have been developed according to unique instrument acoustical features based on types of excitation, resonance, and radiation. These include the woodwind, brass, bowed and plucked string, and percussion families of instruments. On the other hand, instrument performance depends on musical training, and music listening depends on perception of instrument output. Since musical signals are easier to understand in the frequency domain than the time domain, much effort has been made to perform spectral analysis and extract salient parameters, such as spectral centroids, in order to create simplified synthesis models for musical instrument sound synthesis. Moreover, perceptual tests have been made to determine the relative importance of various parameters, such as spectral centroid variation, spectral incoherence, and spectral irregularity. It turns out that the importance of particular parameters depends on both their strengths within musical sounds as well as the robustness of their effect on perception. Methods that the author and his colleagues have used to explore timbre perception are: 1) discrimination of parameter reduction or elimination; 2) dissimilarity judgments together with multidimensional scaling; 3) informal listening to sound morphing examples. This paper discusses ramifications of this work for sound synthesis and timbre transposition. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/104425/PDF/03_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/104425 PY - 2011 IS - No 2 EP - 238 DO - 10.2478/v10168-011-0018-8 KW - musical timbre KW - music synthesis KW - loudness KW - pitch KW - duration KW - attack KW - decay KW - spectral envelope KW - spectral centroid KW - spectral irregularity KW - spectral flux KW - vibrato KW - inharmonicity KW - discrimination KW - dissimilarity KW - multidimensional scaling (MDS) KW - timbre transposition KW - rms amplitude KW - fundamental frequency KW - correspondence A1 - Beauchamp, James PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 36 DA - 2011 T1 - Perceptually Correlated Parameters of Musical Instrument Tones SP - 225 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/104425 T2 - Archives of Acoustics