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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**William A. Sethares** (born April 19, 1955) is an American music theorist and EE professor with extensive contributions to music theory. He is noted for work adjusting tuning and timbre based on the Plomp and Levelt approach to consonance, and work with [[Andrew Milne]] and [[Jim Plamondon]] on [[ismorphic keyboards|isomorphic keyboards]], which have the same fingering in all keys and which can be seen as a generalization of the work of Bosanquet. | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**William A. Sethares** (born April 19, 1955) is an American music theorist and EE professor with extensive contributions to music theory. He is noted for work adjusting tuning and timbre based on the Plomp and Levelt approach to consonance, and work with [[Andrew Milne]] and [[Jim Plamondon]] on [[ismorphic keyboards|isomorphic keyboards]], which have the same fingering in all keys and which can be seen as a generalization of the work of Bosanquet. | ||
[[http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/comprog.html|His dissonance measure]] is based on summing the Plomp-Levelt roughness for every pair of tones in a sound, which produces smooth dissonance curves for dyads of harmonic sounds that are similar to other measures. However, it measures major chords (4:5:6) and minor chords (10:12:15) as equally dissonant, which is not the usual interpretation. [[Paul Erlich]] [[http://www.tonalsoft.com/sonic-arts/td/erlich/entropy.htm|calls this measurement "roughness"]] , and combines it with "tonalness" (similarity to a harmonic series) to explain the discrepancy. | |||
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>Bill Sethares</title></head><body><strong>William A. Sethares</strong> (born April 19, 1955) is an American music theorist and EE professor with extensive contributions to music theory. He is noted for work adjusting tuning and timbre based on the Plomp and Levelt approach to consonance, and work with <a class="wiki_link" href="/Andrew%20Milne">Andrew Milne</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/Jim%20Plamondon">Jim Plamondon</a> on <a class="wiki_link" href="/ismorphic%20keyboards">isomorphic keyboards</a>, which have the same fingering in all keys and which can be seen as a generalization of the work of Bosanquet.<br /> | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>Bill Sethares</title></head><body><strong>William A. Sethares</strong> (born April 19, 1955) is an American music theorist and EE professor with extensive contributions to music theory. He is noted for work adjusting tuning and timbre based on the Plomp and Levelt approach to consonance, and work with <a class="wiki_link" href="/Andrew%20Milne">Andrew Milne</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/Jim%20Plamondon">Jim Plamondon</a> on <a class="wiki_link" href="/ismorphic%20keyboards">isomorphic keyboards</a>, which have the same fingering in all keys and which can be seen as a generalization of the work of Bosanquet.<br /> | ||
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<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/comprog.html" rel="nofollow">His dissonance measure</a> is based on summing the Plomp-Levelt roughness for every pair of tones in a sound, which produces smooth dissonance curves for dyads of harmonic sounds that are similar to other measures. However, it measures major chords (4:5:6) and minor chords (10:12:15) as equally dissonant, which is not the usual interpretation. <a class="wiki_link" href="/Paul%20Erlich">Paul Erlich</a> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tonalsoft.com/sonic-arts/td/erlich/entropy.htm" rel="nofollow">calls this measurement &quot;roughness&quot;</a> , and combines it with &quot;tonalness&quot; (similarity to a harmonic series) to explain the discrepancy.<br /> | |||
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<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu" rel="nofollow">Homepage</a></body></html></pre></div> | <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu" rel="nofollow">Homepage</a></body></html></pre></div> | ||
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**William A. Sethares** (born April 19, 1955) is an American music theorist and EE professor with extensive contributions to music theory. He is noted for work adjusting tuning and timbre based on the Plomp and Levelt approach to consonance, and work with [[Andrew Milne]] and [[Jim Plamondon]] on [[ismorphic keyboards|isomorphic keyboards]], which have the same fingering in all keys and which can be seen as a generalization of the work of Bosanquet. [[http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/comprog.html|His dissonance measure]] is based on summing the Plomp-Levelt roughness for every pair of tones in a sound, which produces smooth dissonance curves for dyads of harmonic sounds that are similar to other measures. However, it measures major chords (4:5:6) and minor chords (10:12:15) as equally dissonant, which is not the usual interpretation. [[Paul Erlich]] [[http://www.tonalsoft.com/sonic-arts/td/erlich/entropy.htm|calls this measurement "roughness"]] , and combines it with "tonalness" (similarity to a harmonic series) to explain the discrepancy. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sethares|Wikipedia article]] [[http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu|Homepage]]
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<html><head><title>Bill Sethares</title></head><body><strong>William A. Sethares</strong> (born April 19, 1955) is an American music theorist and EE professor with extensive contributions to music theory. He is noted for work adjusting tuning and timbre based on the Plomp and Levelt approach to consonance, and work with <a class="wiki_link" href="/Andrew%20Milne">Andrew Milne</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/Jim%20Plamondon">Jim Plamondon</a> on <a class="wiki_link" href="/ismorphic%20keyboards">isomorphic keyboards</a>, which have the same fingering in all keys and which can be seen as a generalization of the work of Bosanquet.<br /> <br /> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/comprog.html" rel="nofollow">His dissonance measure</a> is based on summing the Plomp-Levelt roughness for every pair of tones in a sound, which produces smooth dissonance curves for dyads of harmonic sounds that are similar to other measures. However, it measures major chords (4:5:6) and minor chords (10:12:15) as equally dissonant, which is not the usual interpretation. <a class="wiki_link" href="/Paul%20Erlich">Paul Erlich</a> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tonalsoft.com/sonic-arts/td/erlich/entropy.htm" rel="nofollow">calls this measurement "roughness"</a> , and combines it with "tonalness" (similarity to a harmonic series) to explain the discrepancy.<br /> <br /> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sethares" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article</a><br /> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu" rel="nofollow">Homepage</a></body></html>