The computer analysis of polyphonic music
Charles Richard Watson · The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney) · 1985
Human beings are adept at distinguishing simultaneous sounds. A person can understand one of several people speaking at the same time (the so called cocktail party effect). An orchestral conductor can tell if one instrument out of a hundred is playing out of tune. How this discrimination is made from the acoustical signal is not well understood.