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Why Do Close Harmonies and Dissonances Sound Rougher at Low Pitches than High Pitches?
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Why Do Close Harmonies and Dissonances Sound Rougher at Low Pitches than High Pitches?

Ingo Titze
Journal of singing, Vol.73(4), pp.411-412
03/01/2017

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Abstract

In ensemble singing or instrument playing close harmony or dissonance is perceived to contain more roughness and more pitch uncertainty at low pitches than at high pitches. A tendency might be to assign this to errors in production, but it entirely a perceptual phenomenon.
Dissonance Harmony Pitch (Acoustics) Pitch Perception

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