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Shepard tone

A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet which ultimately gets…

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Shepard tone

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Shepard tone → Always Ascending, Am, An Eternal Golden Braid, Armand Hammer, AT, Australian, Austrian, Autechre, Bach, Bach's Musical Offering, Bagatelle, Batpod, BGM, Black Emperor's, Canon, Christopher Nolan, Cruelty Squad, Cthulhu, Dadaist, Danny Carey
related to External links · 18
Shepard tone → An E5 Shinkansen Bullet, Bang Goes, BBC, CodePenTritone, Java, JavaA, Keyboard, Macromedia Shockwave, Pedro Patricio's, Penrose, Perpetual Melody, Shepard, Shepard Effect, Shepard Scale, Shepard ToneDemonstration, Theory, Train Departing Tokyo Station, Visualization
related to Construction · 15
Shepard tone → According, As, B3, B4, B5, C4, C5, D4, D5, Each, Figure, In, Overlapping, Shepard, The
related to Tritone paradox · 11
Shepard tone → Californians, Deutsch, Diana Deutsch, Different, Dolson, English, Henthorn, In, Necker, Shepard, Vietnamese
related to Perpetual melody · 5
Shepard tone → Pedro Patricio, Regardless, Shepard, Shepard Scale, The
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Shepard tone → key aspect.In the 2008 film The Dark Knight and its 2012 followup The Dark Knight Rises

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Shepard toneis akey aspect.In the 2008 film The Dark Knight and its 2012 followup The Dark Knight Rises0.90text
Shepard tonerelated to ConstructionEach0.60section
Shepard tonerelated to ConstructionFigure0.60section
Shepard tonerelated to ConstructionShepard0.60section
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Shepard tonerelated to ConstructionOverlapping0.60section
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Shepard tonerelated to ConstructionC40.60section
Shepard tonerelated to ConstructionC50.60section
Shepard tonerelated to ConstructionD40.60section
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