Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 1996/06

From: frank brugman <fbrugman@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: A Centered Tone/Voicing
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 07:05:47 -0400

At 08:15 PM 6/1/96 -0400,
James M. Pyne wrote:
>An interesting issue is raised by this discussion that may be worth
>mentioning. We have no "timbre vocabulary" in music that can be
>consistently understood by musicians to describe variations in tone color
>that are essential to our art. Visual artists can describe "cobalt blue"
>and have a good understanding of what that means to their community. Their
>training includes that information. One goal of our research group is to
>explore the possibility that computer-controlled, real-time visual
>representations (spectra) of musical tones may give us a way to "teach" an
>agreed-upon timbre vocabulary.
>
Jim,

I am sure that I'm not alone in my strong interest in this subject. Is
there somewhere one can find more on this subject, i.e., how the actual
clarinet tone is analyzed with the strength and distribution of overtones
measured and visually represented. I would be pleased if there were a
nomenclature for classifying clarinet sounds based on physical science
rather than the vague terms we now deal with.

Frank Brugman, Talent Oregon
Frank Brugman