William Sethares published a model of dissonance, where dissonance of a sound is an amplitude-weighted sum of the dissonance of all pairs of partials, with diss

William Sethares published a model of dissonance, where dissonance of a sound is an amplitude-weighted sum of the dissonance of all pairs of partials, with dissonance of individual pairs a function of their frequencies according to Plomp and Levelt's dissonance curve. This model is a good approximation of how humans perceive dissonance, and it generalizes to inharmonic sounds: Local Consonance and the Relationship Between Timbre and Scale https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/consonance.pdf https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/consonance.pdf Informal explanation of the paper: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html