Perceptual and performed accents in musical sequences.

The Role of Melodic and Rhythmic Accents in Musical Structure

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Effects of context on electrophysiological response to musical accents.

Listeners' aesthetic and emotional responses to music typically occur in the context of long musical passages that contain structures defined in terms of the events that precede them. We describe an electrophysiological study of listeners' brain responses to musical accents that coincided in longer musical sequences. Musically trained listeners performed a timbre-change detection task in which ...

Perceptual Ratings of Musical Parameters

The Perceptual Grouping of Musical Sequences: Pitch and Timing as Competing Cues

This study investigated the effects of pitch and timing on perceptual grouping, and examined the relative strengths of grouping based on pitch and temporal proximity. Sequences of twelve tones were constructed in which pitch proximity suggested one type of grouping (e.g., four groups of three tones each) and temporal proximity suggested an opposing type of grouping (in this case, three groups o...

Comparison of musical sequences

Concepts from the theory of sequence comparison are adapted to measure the overall similarity or dissimilarity between two musical scores. A key element is the notion of consolidation and fragmentation, different both from the deletions and insertions familiar in sequence comparison, and from the compressions and expansions of time warping in automatic speech recognition. The measure of compari...