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Assessment of Timbre Using Verbal Attributes Graham Darke, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Graham2.Darke@uwe.ac.uk Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM05) Actes du Colloque interdisciplinaire de musicologie (CIM05) Montréal (Québec) Canada, 10-12/03/2005 Abstract As part of the perceptual processing to form an abstract picture of a sound, the question arises as to how various timbral judgments are made. An early step in these ‘processing stages’ suggests that comparisons are made with our previous experiences of sounds. These experiences are often given descriptive labels by which we can communicate the concept of a timbre. It follows that a listener might be able to make qualitative assessments of a sound when asked to judge aga inst the perception of this set of verbal attributes. This study looks at the effectiveness of communicating assessment judgments concerning timbre under controlled conditions. The work presented reports on a study where a group of musicians were asked to assess a number of musical sounds against 12 verbal attributes. The study is based around describing and analysing sounds from a subset of pitched European orchestral instruments. Using statistical analysis, the collated judgements are analysed to indicate the level of agreement that can be obtained from a collective view of each attribute. Some evidence of agreement between assessments is shown by the use of group means and varian