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Music psychology

a tone built from octave-spaced components that seems to rise or fall endlessly because pitch height and pitch class come apart.

In music psychology, Shepard tone refers to a tone built from octave-spaced components that seems to rise or fall endlessly because pitch height and pitch class come apart. This meaning comes from Shepard (1964) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.[1]

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References

Shepard, R. N. (1964). Circularity in Judgments of Relative Pitch. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 36(12), 2346-2353. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1919362

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