Commentary
Timbre Blending in a Continuum and its Implications for Everyday Life
Zehra F Peynircioglu* and William Brent
American University, Washington, D.C. USA
- Corresponding Author:
- Zehra F. Peynircioglu
American University, Washington, D.C. USA
Tel: 202-885-1000
E-mail: peynir@american.edu
Received Date: May 20, 2015 Accepted Date: September 17, 2015 Published Date: September 25, 2015
Citation: Peynircioglu ZF, Brent W (2015) Timbre Blending in a Continuum and its Implications for Everyday Life. J Biomusic Eng 3:107. doi:10.4172/2090-2719.1000107
Copyright: © 2015 Peynircioglu ZF, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Mixing or blending the timbre of sounds, especially musical sounds, is an important technique in many fields. Composers, sound designers, and perception researchers in psychology make use of such blends for a variety of purposes. For instance, composers have a long-standing history of creating timbre blending effects through sophisticated orchestration, and have also theorized about creating hierarchies of timbre that would be useful in delineating large-scale form and structure in music.
