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Pitch and time, tonality and meter: How do musical dimensions combine?
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Pitch and time, tonality and meter: How do musical dimensions combine?

J.B. Prince, W.F. Thompson and M.A. Schmuckler
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.35(5), pp.1598-1617
2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016456
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Abstract

The authors examined how the structural attributes of tonality and meter influence musical pitch–time relations. Listeners heard a musical context followed by probe events that varied in pitch class and temporal position. Tonal and metric hierarchies contributed additively to the goodness-of-fit of probes, with pitch class exerting a stronger influence than temporal position (Experiment 1), even when listeners attempted to ignore pitch (Experiment 2). Speeded classification tasks confirmed this asymmetry. Temporal classification was biased by tonal stability (Experiment 3), but pitch classification was unaffected by temporal position (Experiment 4). Experiments 5 and 6 ruled out explanations based on the presence of pitch classes and temporal positions in the context, unequal stimulus quantity, and discriminability. The authors discuss how typical Western music biases attention toward pitch and distinguish between dimensional discriminability and salience.

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10 Arts & Humanities
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