Phenomenology and Mind

No. 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses
Session 2. Representationalism, Phenomenal Character, Subjectivity

Some Considerations on Pitch

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  • Elvira Di Bona
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19600

Published 2016-11-26

Keywords

  • sound,
  • perception,
  • pitch

How to Cite

Di Bona, E. (2016). Some Considerations on Pitch. Phenomenology and Mind, (4), 178–185. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19600
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Abstract

Pitch is an audible quality of sound which can be explained not only in terms of strong correlation with sound waves’ properties, but also by a neat correlation to the properties of the sounding object. This seems to be in favour of the theory of sound labelled “distal view”, according to which sound is the vibration of the sounding object.

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