SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCE OF CELLISTS FOR THE DELAY TIME OF A SINGLE REFLECTION IN A PERFORMANCE

✍ Scribed by S. SATO; Y. ANDO; S. OTA

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 232
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1006/jsvi.1999.2683

✦ Synopsis

To provide knowledge useful in designing the stage enclosure in a concert hall, Nakayama reported the subjective preference of alto-recorder players for sound "elds with a single re#ection [Acustica 54, 217}221 (1984)]. The present study evaluates the subjective preferences, with regard to ease of performance, of "ve cello soloists for the delay time of a single re#ection. The scale values of preference for the delay time of a single re#ection were obtained using a paired comparison method, and the results were compared with those for the alto-recorder players and listeners. The scale values of preference for both individuals and for global cellists with regard to the delay time of re#ection can be expressed by a single approximate formula, normalizing the delay time by the most-preferred delay time observed for di!erent music motifs. A notable "nding is that the most-preferred delay time of a single re#ection for each cellist can be calculated from the amplitude of the re#ection and the minimum value of the e!ective duration ( C ) KGL of the running autocorrelation function of the music motifs played by each cellist.