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Response to David Temperley's Commentary
The author responds to points raised in David Temperley’s commentary, which appeared in Vol. 1, No. 2 of Empirical Musicology Review. The response includes a discussion of strengths and limitations of atemporal models of musical perception, with ...
William Thomson
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Revealing The Exotic Rhythm and Tonality in Bright Sheng’s Dance Capriccio
For the different embodiments of exotic styles in musical compositions, composers have provided a number of examples of patterns and new directions, broadly summarizing it as the musical characteristics of a different region, whether apparent or not ...
Qian Deng, Loo Fung Chiat
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Tonal properties in a non-tonal language: The case of Indonesian
This study investigates the tonal properties of Indonesian, specifically examining intonation contours in Indonesian at the sentence level and focusing on how the tonal system is used to indicate different pragmatic meanings in Indonesian. Four distinct intonation contours with four distinct meanings were contrasted: strong agreement to the truth of ...
I Nyoman Udayana+3 more
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Transformations of Tonality: A Longitudinal Study of Yodeling in the Muotatal Valley, Central Switzerland [PDF]
This paper examines the transformation of tonalities in the Central Switzerland village of Muotatal, a small region attracting the focus of ethnomusicologists for harboring and conserving a unique style of yodel, called juuz.
Wey, Yannick
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Models of tone for tonal and non-tonal languages
Conventional wisdom in automatic speech recognition asserts that pitch information is not helpful in building speech recognizers for non-tonal languages and contributes only modestly to performance in speech recognizers for tonal languages. To maintain consistency between different systems, pitch is therefore often ignored, trading the slight ...
Metze, Florian+6 more
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Adorno's Marxism versus Schoenberg's Judaism: Ideological foundations of Adorno's sociological approach to Schoenberg's dodecaphonic music [PDF]
In this article the authors devote their attention to the ideological dimension of Theodor Adorno's attitude towards atonality, and especially towards dodecaphonic music.
Jeremić-Molnar Dragana+1 more
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The early right anterior negativity (ERAN) in event-related potentials (ERPs) is typically elicited by syntactically unexpected events in Western tonal music.
Hana Shin+2 more
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Harmonic qualities in Debussy's "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir" [PDF]
This analysis of the fourth piece from Debussy's Préludes Book I illustrates typical harmonic techniques of Debussy as manipulations of harmonic qualities.
Yust, Jason
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This commentary provides two methodological expansions of von Hippel and Huron's (2020) empirical report on (anti-)tonality in twelve-tone rows by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg. First, motivated by the theoretical importance of equality
Niels Chr. Hansen
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