Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i3-4.8134
S. Burgess
This is a review of Harrison's (2021) paper "Social Mechanisms of Stylistic Change: A Case Study from Early 20th-Century France." In this study, Harrison found that the Apaches, a group of composers known for pushing stylistic boundaries in 20th-century France, employed slightly more instances of notated meter change in their music than a control group of their peers, but that the use of notated meter change also depended on other factors such as composers' generational membership. This commentary primarily explores Harrison's methodologies: while the stringent definitions Harrison defines for each variable in her studies allow for specificity in the statistical analyses, they leave out a large portion of perceptually relevant data that would lend greater musicological generalizability to the results presented.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i3-4.8002
Yke Schotanus
In his commentary on Schotanus 2020 "Singing and Accompaniment Support the Processing of Song Lyrics and Change the Lyrics", Lee (2020) discusses several methodological issues related to this article, proposes a reanalysis of part the data, and asks for additional research. This reaction provides the reanalysis asked for, and briefly discusses additional research, and further issues.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7774
Christopher S. Lee
In this commentary, a number of problematic aspects of the studies presented in the target article are discussed. Suggestions have been made for further analyses of some of the data and for additional experimental investigations.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7676
Y. Schotanus
In the article "Emotion Painting: Lyric, affect, and musical relationships in a large lead-sheet corpus", Sun and Cuthbert (2017) explored the correlations between affect-carrying lyrics and musical features such as beat strength, pitch height, consonance, and mode. Several musical features did indeed turn out to be highly correlated with the affect of the lyrics. However, correlations between other features, particularly mode-related musical features and lyric affect, were either insignificant or even contradicted previous research. In the current commentary, it is argued that the difference between the musical features that show significant correlations and those that do not is that the former have a local musical effect whereas the latter tend to affect the mood of a whole phrase or piece, and that the way Sun and Cuthbert estimate lyric affect for sentences or song may not be appropriate. Furthermore, a few remarks are made about the way Sun and Cuthbert treat multi-syllable words and about some basic assumptions concerning the relation between music and lyrics in a song. Nevertheless, the authors are praised for their innovative and interesting work, while several alternative and additional analyses (for example with scale-degree qualia and syncopations) are proposed.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.6994
Yvonne Teo
Despite the large body of research that has examined tonal and atonal harmonies to our perception of tension, there is no work that describes or explores the perception of post-tonal chords, but more specifically, chords that contain both tonal and posttonal features. This article applies the concept of calculating the total amount of voice-leading movement, to examine its relationship to our perception of tension and release. To do this, three neoclassical pieces are selected to analyze the relationship between theoretical and perceived tension. The findings suggest that in addition to calculating the horizontal motion between harmonies, physical and acoustical factors play a critical role in relating theoretical to perceived tension. This approach is adaptable to other neoclassical works and in addition, this study could have implications in other musical fields such as performance practices and analyzing formal functions in post-tonal repertoire. Submitted 2019 July 1; accepted 2019 November 4. Published 2020 October 22; https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.6994
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7660
C. Trevor
This commentary discusses the motivation, methods, and results of Teo’s (2020) article on using Aggregate Voice-Leading (AVL) motion to predict perceived harmonic tension within post-tonal, neoclassical repertoire. The successes of the study as well as possible improvements are furthermore discussed. The final section contemplates some of Teo’s results in light of BaileyShea and Monahan’s (2018) embodied theory of analyzing and describing musical energetics such as tension. This embodied theory does not rely on tonality to operate and is therefore applicable to many genres of music. It could be an especially useful theory for analyzing genres of music for which past models of harmonic tension are insufficient, such as post-tonal or electroacoustic music. Submitted 2020 May 8; accepted 2020 May 9. Published 2020 October 22; https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7660
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7718
Daniel Shanahan
On the occasion of David Huron's retirement, EMR Editor, Daniel Shanahan, recently interviewed him regarding the founding of the journal, the growth of empirical musicology, digital corpus studies, the Humdrum Toolkit, and related topics. The first of two interviews.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.6863
Y. Schotanus
A growing body of evidence indicates that music can support the processing of language. Some of its beneficial effects may even occur after one exposure. Accompaniment can also have an impact: in a-cappella singing, silences and out-of-key notes may confuse listeners, while accompaniment avoids silences and elucidates both rhythm and harmony, thereby supporting music-processing and concentration. These hypotheses were tested in two experiments. In a classroom setting, 271 pupils (M = 15.7 years old, SD = 0.9), listened to five out of 24 tracks (four songs in six different conditions) and completed a questionnaire after each one. As expected, the instrumental interludes between sung or spoken phrases in accompanied versions were rated less distracting than the silences that replace them in unaccompanied ones. Furthermore, perceived arousal, emotion, valence, and purity of singing were rated more positively in accompanied versions. Singing, on the other hand, supports the perceived intelligibility and comprehensibility of the lyrics. Finally, the music makes repetitions of words and phrases more meaningful and changes the lyrics’ emotional meaning, wereby some aspects of sadness are associated with negative affect while other aspects of sadness are associated with positive affect. These results were by and large replicated in a better randomized laboratory experiment among 24 adults (M = 24.4; SD = 4.8). Submitted 2018 November 26; accepted 2020 August 6. Published 2020 October 22; https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.6863
{"title":"Singing and Accompaniment Support the Processing of Song Lyrics and Change the Lyrics' Meaning","authors":"Y. Schotanus","doi":"10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.6863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.6863","url":null,"abstract":"A growing body of evidence indicates that music can support the processing of language. Some of its beneficial effects may even occur after one exposure. Accompaniment can also have an impact: in a-cappella singing, silences and out-of-key notes may confuse listeners, while accompaniment avoids silences and elucidates both rhythm and harmony, thereby supporting music-processing and concentration. These hypotheses were tested in two experiments. In a classroom setting, 271 pupils (M = 15.7 years old, SD = 0.9), listened to five out of 24 tracks (four songs in six different conditions) and completed a questionnaire after each one. As expected, the instrumental interludes between sung or spoken phrases in accompanied versions were rated less distracting than the silences that replace them in unaccompanied ones. Furthermore, perceived arousal, emotion, valence, and purity of singing were rated more positively in accompanied versions. Singing, on the other hand, supports the perceived intelligibility and comprehensibility of the lyrics. Finally, the music makes repetitions of words and phrases more meaningful and changes the lyrics’ emotional meaning, wereby some aspects of sadness are associated with negative affect while other aspects of sadness are associated with positive affect. These results were by and large replicated in a better randomized laboratory experiment among 24 adults (M = 24.4; SD = 4.8). Submitted 2018 November 26; accepted 2020 August 6. Published 2020 October 22; https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.6863","PeriodicalId":44128,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Musicology Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42858322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7551
Miriam Piilonen
No abstract available.
没有摘要。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7324
Imre Lahdelma, T. Eerola
The authors respond to the commentary by Michael Spitzer which appeared in Vol. 14, No. 1-2 of Empirical Musicology Review. The response 1) points out the problem with equating nostalgia and tension in the perception of single chords, 2) makes a case for why studying the role of vertical harmony, isolated from other musical cues, is insightful, and 3) questions the relevance of appoggiaturas as an explanation for the perception of nostalgia in single chords. Submitted 2019 December 6; accepted 2020 August 6. Published 2020 October 22; https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7324
{"title":"A Response to Michael Spitzer's Commentary","authors":"Imre Lahdelma, T. Eerola","doi":"10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7324","url":null,"abstract":"The authors respond to the commentary by Michael Spitzer which appeared in Vol. 14, No. 1-2 of Empirical Musicology Review. The response 1) points out the problem with equating nostalgia and tension in the perception of single chords, 2) makes a case for why studying the role of vertical harmony, isolated from other musical cues, is insightful, and 3) questions the relevance of appoggiaturas as an explanation for the perception of nostalgia in single chords. Submitted 2019 December 6; accepted 2020 August 6. Published 2020 October 22; https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7324","PeriodicalId":44128,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Musicology Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48407890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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