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Hierarchical perception of melody
(2009)
Two experiments were designed to investigate the hierarchical perception of melodies. The hierarchical structure of tonal melodies is formally described in Lerdahl and Jackendoff's Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM). ...
Importance of Enharmonic Tone Spelling in Computational Analysis of Tonal Structure
(2009)
This paper will discuss various instances of enharmonic spellings of chords. Selected characteristic enharmonic chords in compositions of the tonal period will be presented. The paper's main purpose is to show: (1) the ...
Music preferences based on audio features, and its relation to personality
(2009)
Recent studies have summarized reported music preferences by genre into four broadly defined categories, which relate to various personality characteristics. Other research has indicated that genre classification is ambiguous ...
The Meaning of Redundancy for Opera Choristers - an investigation of musical identity in the context of job loss
(2009)
This study looks at the impact of job loss for seven professional opera choristers. The individual aspects of such change are not always addressed by traditional methodologies. Motivated by these concerns, this study takes ...
A Psychoacoustic Model of Harmonic Cadences - A Preliminary Report
(2009)
This report presents a psychoacoustically derived computational model of the perceived distance between any two major or minor triads, the degree of activity created by any given pair of triads, and the cadential effectiveness ...
Movement and the Practice of Meaning in Song
(2009)
This study intends to provide some evidence about the body involvement in the meaning production in song performance. It analyzes body actions that are not basic requirement for sound production, during the elaboration ...
Do absolute pitch possessors have a field independent cognitive style?
(2009)
The factors contributing to the development of absolute pitch (AP) are still not fully understood. It seems to be neither completely inherited nor completely teachable. This study tested the hypothesis, that individual ...
The Brain, Memory, and Oral Tradition in Music
(2009)
Recent studies of the brain in various subfields have shown that memory is really a type of re-creation—piecing together many elements stored separately. Memory, creativity and their connections have been focal points in ...
Harmony wants to sit in the front - Different Brain Responses to Violations in Chord Progressions
(2009)
Deviations from auditory regularities elicit electric potentials distributed over the frontal regions of the scalp. The mismatch negativity (MMN) is elicited by change in repetitive auditory input, whereas the early right ...
Considerations Concerning a Methodology for Musical Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
(2009)
Robot technology is increasingly employed in artistic (musical) applications and as modeling tool for the investigation of general cognitive abilities and music related behavior in particular. Apart from the specifications ...