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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Major-Minor Tonality, Schenkerian Prolongation, and Emotion: A commentary on Huron and Davis (2012)
Empirical Musicology Review, 2013 On average, melodies in minor keys have smaller intervals between successive tones than melodies in major keys—consistent with the emotional difference between major and minor (Huron, 2008).
Richard Parncutt
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Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
Journal of Mathematics and MusicA fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do. Despite the cultural diversity of our globalized world, most Western music is still structured around major and minor scales and chords.
Parncutt, Richard
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Colored tones of emotions: the relationship between music, emotions and color [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionMusic influences not only emotions but also cross-modal perception, including color. Previous studies have demonstrated that major keys and faster tempi are often associated with bright hues and positive affect, whereas minor keys and slower ...
Francesco Febbraio +4 more
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Acoustic features of music differentially modulate anxiety through EEG gamma oscillations and prefrontal connectivity [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUniversity 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 +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 +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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Psychology of Music, 2023 Mode is a foundational concept of Western music, serving as the basis for chords and harmonies, detecting and assessing cadences and form, and conveying musical emotion. Traditionally treated categorically, here we build upon recent work exploring this crucial musical construct on a continuum, an approach we refer to as ‘relative mode’.
Tuomas Eerola, Michael Schutz
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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 +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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