We will review some basic psychoacoustics and then listen to some interesting example.
If we have time we will look at some abstracts / short papers reporting on studies conducted in recent year at conference such as - ICMCP 2016; ICMPC 2010; ESCOM 2017; ESCOM 2015 (PDF 70Mb)
We ended the class by listening to Diana Deutch's (and Stravinski's) octave scrambled melody.
Read the chapter about timbre from the Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology (look at myreading list). You can also find detailed discussions of timbre here and here with examples and illustrations.