this paper intends to study attraction theory which it has been published in a book entitled new method of music performance principles. it should note that mentioned book has been selected as the best book in 21 festival for year book in islamic republic of iran. at first some these drawbacks will be considered regarding to scientific rules then we find that the frequency ratio of sounds in th...

In the present research we examined the development of sensitivity to two musical relations significant in Western tonal music, the semitone and diatonic structure. Infants and preschool children were tested for their detection of a semitone change in any position of a five-note melody. Two standard melodies were used, one composed of diatonic tones only and the other containing a non-diatonic ...

A fundamental feature of everyday music perception is sensitivity to familiar tonal structures such as musical keys. Many studies have suggested that a tonal context can enhance the perception and representation of pitch. Most of these studies have measured response time, which may reflect expectancy as opposed to perceptual accuracy. We instead used a performance-based measure, comparing parti...

The present article argues in favor of a discipline of Mathematical Music Theory (see [16], [18] for earlier attempts). By reviewing and re-interpretating known results, we draw further conclusions and formulate working hypotheses. Especially, we recapitulate a known fact about diatonic triads and seventh chords in connection with an analogous fact about pentatonic and diatonic scales in the 12...

Listeners rated test tones falling in the octave range from middle to high C according to how well each completed a diatonic C major scale played in an adjacent octave just before the final test tone. Ratings were well explained in terms of three factors. The factors were distance in pitch height from the context tones, octave equivalence, and the following hierarchy of tonal functions: tonic t...

This paper presents the spectra of several orchestral instruments measured in the concert hall of the Liceo Statale “Alfano I” in Salerno, Italy. For each musical instrument used the variations of frequency of average signal unweighted (LZeq average) relative to the C diatonic major scale are shown in ascending and descending order. In this study the notes played by eight instruments (flute, tr...