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Modes on the Move: Interval Cycles and the Emergence of Major-Minor Tonality [PDF]

Empirical Musicology Review, 2011
The issue of the emergence of major-minor tonality is addressed by recourse to a novel pitch grouping process, referred to as interval cycle proximity (ICP).
Matthew Woolhouse
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Acoustic features of music differentially modulate anxiety through EEG gamma oscillations and prefrontal connectivity [PDF]

Scientific Reports
University students may experience high levels of anxiety and depression, which can adversely affect their daily lives and academic performance and represent significant mental health conditions. Music therapy has been proposed as a promising noninvasive
Qianwen Luo, Yifan Wang, Kairui Yang, Airong Qian, Pei Nie, Min Xi, Wenjuan Zhang, Gong Chen   +7 more
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Memory for musical tones: The impact of tonality and the creation of false memories

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Although the relation between tonality and musical memory has been fairly well-studied, less is known regarding the contribution of tonal-schematic expectancies to this relation.
Dominique T. Vuvan, Olivia M. Podolak, Mark A. Schmuckler   +2 more
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Overcoming the crisis of tonality: The resemantized tonality of modernism [PDF]

Muzikologija, 2016
In this article I analyse the context and features of resemantized tonality, historically linked with the first half of the 20th century. The renewed interest in tonality occurred after the crisis of tonality - the system that prevailed in music
Teparić Srđan
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Expression of emotion in Eastern and Western music mirrors vocalization. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
In Western music, the major mode is typically used to convey excited, happy, bright or martial emotions, whereas the minor mode typically conveys subdued, sad or dark emotions.
Daniel Liu Bowling, Janani Sundararajan, Shui'er Han, Dale Purves   +3 more
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Eklektizismus und Experiment. ›Just Intonation‹ in Ben Johnstons späten Streichquartetten [PDF]

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 2016
Ben Johnstons späte Streichquartette überraschen durch ihre originelle Dialektik von traditioneller Oberfläche und mikrotonaler Binnengestaltung. Die Analyse von vier ausgewählten Beispielen fördert verschiedene Funktionsweisen von Johnstons Arbeit mit ...
Johannes Quint
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Trajectory of Fifths in Music Data Mining

IEEE Access, 2021
This article presents a new concept of a music piece's content representation using the so-called trajectory of fifths. The herein proposed approach is an enhancement to the music data mining techniques based on the analysis of the music signature ...
Dariusz Kania, Paulina Kania, Tomasz Lukaszewicz   +2 more
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Perceived Emotions of Harmonic Cadences

Music & Science, 2020
Harmonic cadences are chord progressions that play an important structural role in Western classical music – they demarcate musical phrases and contribute to the tonality.
Eline A. Smit, Felix A. Dobrowohl, Nora K. Schaal, Andrew J. Milne, Steffen A. Herff   +4 more
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Music Therapy with Ethnic Music for Dementia Patients

International Journal of Gerontology, 2012
Background: Dementia is already critical issues in the world when the society experiences super-aging. This situation requires establishment of rehabilitation methods for relieving symptoms of the patients.
Yuki Tanaka, Hiroki Nogawa, Hiroshi Tanaka   +2 more
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Is Absolute Pitch Associated With Musical Tension Processing?

i-Perception, 2020
Absolute pitch (AP) is a superior ability to identify or produce musical tones without a reference tone. Although a few studies have investigated the relationship between AP and high-level music processing such as tonality and syntactic processing, very ...
Jun Jiang*, Tang Hai, Dongrui Man, Linshu Zhou   +3 more
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