Not sure about music theory but MRI scan can perhaps reveal some clues.
Quite possibly the result will be not that different as from
MULTItimbral sound or some other 'addictions'.
I'd feel quite sceptical if any, however advanced, detection method that
is available today can pick up such subtleties ...
Alexander
Herbert Ward wrote:
The strings of a lute all have approximately the same
timbre, so that lute music is polyphonic and monotimbral.
In contrast, there is much early music which is polyphonic
and MULTItimbral (ensemble music).
Is it possible, using music theory or other methodology,
to analyze whether practitioners of lute music accomodate
the instrument's monotimbral quality, and to describe
the details of how the accomodation works?
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