Perceptions of Loudness in Dissonance and Harmonic Tones

Abstract

The inspiration for this research was based on the work done by Sethares. For the past 20 years he has been analyzing sensory dissonance and its relation to musical analysis and composition. Most of his work was based on amplitude and the roughness in the harmonics. The main purpose in this research is to incorporate phons into dissonance curves which allows us to measure the loudness for a certain frequency.