Klarinet Archive - Posting 000131.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] What's wrong with using
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 21:13:36 -0400

Andy, the concise answer to your question is that different people, when
put to the test via actual experiment, do not agree on whether a
particular sample is dark or bright.

A common physical definition for "dark" is "reduced amplitude of the
higher partials"; but since human perception is influenced by more than
just the "low/high ratio", humans seldom agree when asked to identify
specific examples, especially when other dynamic and harmony details are
allowed to vary (as occurs in real music).

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