[Color online] Estimated means for the ten timbre categories of stratified excerpts. Boxes contain means that are not significantly different from one another.

[Color online] Estimated means for the ten timbre categories of stratified excerpts. Boxes contain means that are not significantly different from one another.

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The stratification of layers of differing prominence (foreground/background) is a common technique in orchestration. Musicians heard 23 excerpts containing foreground and background layers as previously determined by music analysts. A given layer comprised either a single auditory stream of one or more blended instruments or a harmonic or rhythmic...