Saitis Charalampos, Fritz Claudia, Scavone Gary P, Guastavino Catherine, Dubois Danièle
Computational Acoustic Modeling Laboratory, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1E3, Canada.
Lutheries-Acoustique-Musique, Institute Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR CNRS 7190, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2017 Apr;141(4):2746. doi: 10.1121/1.4980143.
In this paper, how the notion of violin quality is conveyed in spontaneous verbalizations by experienced violinists during preference judgments is investigated. The aims of the study were to better understand how musicians conceptualize violin quality, what aspects of the sound and the playing experience are essential, and what associations are formed between perceptual evaluation and physical description. Upon comparing violins of varying make and age, players were interviewed about their preferences using open-ended questions. Concepts of violin quality were identified and categorized based on the syntactic and linguistic analysis of musicians' responses. While perceived variations in how a violin sounds and feels, and consequently conceptualization structures, rely on the variations in style and expertise of different violinists, the broader semantic categories emerging from sensory descriptions remain common across performers with diverse musical profiles, reflecting a shared perception of physical parameter patterns that allowed the development of a musician-driven framework for understanding how the dynamic behavior of a violin might relate to its perceived quality. Implications for timbre perception and the crossmodal audio-tactile sensation of sound in music performance are discussed.
本文研究了经验丰富的小提琴家在偏好判断过程中，如何通过自发的言语表达来传达小提琴品质的概念。该研究的目的是更好地理解音乐家如何将小提琴品质概念化，声音和演奏体验的哪些方面至关重要，以及在感知评价和物理描述之间形成了哪些关联。在比较不同品牌和年份的小提琴时，通过开放式问题采访演奏者，了解他们的偏好。基于对音乐家回答的句法和语言分析，确定并分类了小提琴品质的概念。虽然小提琴的声音和手感的感知差异以及相应的概念化结构，取决于不同小提琴家的风格和专业水平差异，但从感官描述中浮现出的更广泛语义类别在具有不同音乐背景的演奏者中仍然是共通的，这反映了对物理参数模式的共同认知，从而形成了一个由音乐家驱动的框架，用于理解小提琴的动态行为与其感知品质之间的关系。文中还讨论了其对音乐表演中音色感知和跨模态音频 - 触觉声音感受的影响。
