ABSTRACT
A. Frequency Analysis and Pitch Discrimination If the eye can be best characterized by the data of color synthesis or mixture, the ear is best described as an analyzer. The fact basic to audition is that the auditory system is capable of separating to some degree a complex mixture of different sounds into its components. The ability, for example, to he ar a particular instrument in a performing orchestra or a particular voice in the noisy hubbub of a cocktail party makes our analysis of the phenomena of auditory pitch perception fundamentally different from those of visual hue perception.
