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Table 5 Correlations between acoustic features and the inter-item distances between the clusters

From: Semantic structures of timbre emerging from social and acoustic descriptions of music

Dimension 1

Dimension 3

Dimension 14

Acoustic feature

r

Acoustic feature

r

Acoustic feature

r

Fluctuation centroid (M)

0.53*

Regularity (SD)

-0.51*

Chromagram centroid (M)

0.60**

Spread (M)

0.51*

Harmonic change (SD)

-0.50*

Flatness (SD)

0.54*

Entropy (SD)

0.50*

Roughness (M)

0.50*

Attack time (M)

-0.51*

Brightness (SD)

0.49*

Harmonic change (M)

-0.50*

Regularity (M)

-0.51*

Flatness (SD)

0.49*

Chromagram centroid (SD)

-0.45*

Attack time (SD)

-0.48*

Flux (SD)

0.49*

Flux (SD)

-0.45*

Chromagram peak (M)

-0.46*

  1. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, df = 17