Effects of Chord Inversion and Bass Patterns on Harmonic Expectancy in Musicians

IF 1.3 2区 心理学 0 MUSIC Music Perception Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1525/mp.2021.39.1.41
E. Schwitzgebel, C. White
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This study tests the respective roles of pitch-class content and bass patterns within harmonic expectation using a mix of behavioral and computational experiments. In our first two experiments, participants heard a paradigmatic chord progression derived from music theory textbooks and were asked to rate how well different target endings completed that progression. The completion included the progression’s paradigmatic target, different inversions of that chord (i.e., different members of the harmony were heard in the lowest voice), and a “mismatched” target, a triad that shared its lowest pitch with the paradigmatic ending but altered other pitch-class content. Participants generally rated the paradigmatic target most highly, followed by other inversions of that chord, with lowest ratings generally elicited by the mismatched target. This suggests that listeners’ harmonic expectations are sensitive to both bass patterns and pitch-class content. However, these results did not hold in all cases. A final computational experiment was run to determine whether variations in behavioral responses could be explained by corpus statistics. To this end, n-gram chord-transition models and frequency measurements were compiled for each progression. Our findings suggest that listeners rate highly and have stronger expectations about chord progressions that occur frequently and behave consistently within tonal corpora.
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和弦转位和低音模式对音乐家和声期望的影响
本研究采用行为实验和计算实验相结合的方法,测试了音高等级内容和低音模式在和声期望中的各自作用。在我们的前两个实验中,参与者听了一段来自音乐理论教科书的范例和弦进行,并被要求对不同的目标结尾完成该过程的程度进行评分。完成包括进展的聚合目标,和弦的不同倒位(即,和声的不同成员以最低的声音被听到),以及一个“不匹配”的目标,一个与聚合结尾共享其最低音高但改变了其他音高等级内容的三和弦。参与者通常对范式目标的评价最高,其次是该和弦的其他反转,最低的评价通常是由不匹配的目标引起的。这表明听者的和声预期对低音模式和音高等级内容都很敏感。然而,这些结果并不适用于所有情况。最后进行了一个计算实验,以确定行为反应的变化是否可以用语料统计来解释。为此,为每个进程编制了n-gram和弦转换模型和频率测量。我们的研究结果表明,听众对频繁出现并在音调语料库中表现一致的和弦进行评价很高,并有更强的期望。
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Music Perception
Music Perception Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Music Perception charts the ongoing scholarly discussion and study of musical phenomena. Publishing original empirical and theoretical papers, methodological articles and critical reviews from renowned scientists and musicians, Music Perception is a repository of insightful research. The broad range of disciplines covered in the journal includes: •Psychology •Psychophysics •Linguistics •Neurology •Neurophysiology •Artificial intelligence •Computer technology •Physical and architectural acoustics •Music theory
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