This project provides a quantitative way to describe the contours of musical pieces from the western classical music repertoire. These contours describe what happens in a piece of music over time according to some measurement: either a measurement of dissonance, spacing, or tonal strength. This project normalizes many of these individual contours and combines them to get an average contour over...

Detecting distinctions between the styles of classical music (e.g. Baroque and Romantic) is often viewed as the privilege of musicians. However, this elite perspective underestimates the abilities of non-musicians. We report that Western musicians and non-musicians, and non-Westerners (i.e. Chinese participants) rated pairs of excerpts presented auditorily as more similar as their compositional...

Musicologists and linguists have often suggested that the prosody of a culture's spoken language can influence the structure of its instrumental music. However, empirical data supporting this idea have been lacking. This has been partly due to the difficulty of developing and applying comparable quantitative measures to melody and rhythm in speech and music. This study uses a recently-developed...

UNLABELLED Exposure to music may be useful in the P300 retest and avoid habituation. AIM To verify the influence of the exposure to different kinds of music in P300 in young females. STUDY DESIGN Clinical prospective. MATERIAL AND METHOD Forty-five women aged from 20 to 36 years were evaluated. P300 was studied before and after musical stimulation with different rhythms. Brazilian songs, ...

Listener perceptions of changes in the arousal expressed by classical music have been found to correlate with changes in sound intensity/loudness over time. This study manipulated the intensity profiles of different pieces of music in order to test the causal nature of this relationship. Listeners (N = 38) continuously rated their perceptions of the arousal expressed by each piece. An extract f...