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Music in the moment? Revisiting the effect of large scale structures.
Philippe LalitteEmmanuel Bigandsubject
AdultContemporary classical musicExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyMusical050105 experimental psychology060404 musicProfessional CompetenceQuality (philosophy)HumansPsychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesRelevance (information retrieval)CommunicationMusic psychologybusiness.industry05 social sciencesRecognition Psychology06 humanities and the artsCoherence (statistics)Scale (music)Sensory SystemsConstraint (information theory)AttitudeAuditory PerceptionPsychologybusiness0604 artsMusicCognitive psychologydescription
The psychological relevance of large-scale musical structures has been a matter of debate in the music community. This issue was investigated with a method that allows assessing listeners' detection of musical incoherencies in normal and scrambled versions of popular and contemporary music pieces. Musical excerpts were segmented into 28 or 29 chunks. In the scrambled version, the temporal order of these chunks was altered with the constraint that the transitions between two chunks never created local acoustical and musical disruptions. Participants were required (1) to detect on-line incoherent linking of chunks, (2) to rate aesthetic quality of pieces, and (3) to evaluate their overall coherence. The findings indicate a moderate sensitivity to large-scale musical structures for popular and contemporary music in both musically trained and untrained listeners. These data are discussed in light of current models of music cognition.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-03-01 | Perceptual and motor skills |