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Perceptual evaluation of violins: A psycholinguistic analysis of preference verbal descriptions by experienced musicians

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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.
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hal-01521220 , version 1 (11-05-2017)

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Charalampos Saitis, Claudia Fritz, Gary P. Scavone, Catherine Guastavino, Danièle Dubois. Perceptual evaluation of violins: A psycholinguistic analysis of preference verbal descriptions by experienced musicians. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017, 141 (4), pp.2746 - 2757. ⟨10.1121/1.4980143⟩. ⟨hal-01521220⟩
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