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Table 6 Correlations between MDS solutions (dimensions 1 and 2) and acoustic features for the experiment

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

Domain

Name

Σ

Dim 1

Dim 2

Spectral

Entropy

SD

0.36

0.46*

 

Flatness

SD

-0.13

0.32

 

Regularity

M

0.72***

0.10

 

Roll-Off

SD

0.70***

0.14

 

Roughness

M

-0.35

-0.74***

 

Spread

M

-0.61**

0.65**

Spectro-temporal

Spectral flux

M

-0.70***

-0.16

Tonal

Chromagram centroid

M

-0.23

-0.72***

 

Chromagram peak

M

0.82***

-0.28

  1. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001, df = 17