A Dictionary of Vocal Themes

Warrack, John; Barlow, H.E.M.; Morgenstern, Sam

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“…With regard to musical meter, Table 1 reports the frequency of occurrence of different metric types in the SMT examples compared with those found in 10,150 classical music themes from Barlow and Morgenstern's (1983) Dictionary of Musical Themes. Musical meters are divided according to subdivision of the beat (i.e., "metric division") and the number of beats per measure (i.e., "metric grouping").…”

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Twirling Triplets: The Qualia of Rotation and Musical Rhythm

Hansen¹,

Huron²

2019

Music & Science

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While musicologists have long noted that triplet rhythms evoke sensations of rotation in listeners, no theory has been proposed to account for this apparent association. To investigate this phenomenon, 33 excerpts of "spinning, rotating, twirling, or swirling" music were crowd-sourced from an online discussion forum. Analysis revealed a prominence of fast, repeated, isochronous patterns using stepwise pitch movement, with significantly more compound meters than generally found in Western music. Inspired by ecological acoustics, an Ecological Theory of Rotating Sounds (ETRoS) is proposed to explain these associations. The theory maps patterns of loudness fluctuations to trajectories of rotating sound sources. Two experiments tested the theory. In Experiment A, listeners rated how much binary, ternary, quaternary, and quinary figures (of 2-5 notes) evoked sensations of rotation. Experiment B used a two-alternative forced-choice paradigm pitting ecological quaternary stimuli (strong-medium-weak-medium) against unecological stimuli with permuted stress values more typical of Western music (strong-weak-medium-weak). Results indicate that perceived rotation increases with tempo and is poorly evoked by binary rhythms. Loudness patterns consistent with rotating trajectories were perceived as more rotating than unecological patterns-but only when pitch was also moving. Altogether, moderate support is provided for an acoustic-ecological account of rotating sounds.

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“…Metric division and grouping types inBarlow and Morgenstern's (1983) Dictionary of Musical Themes compared with the SMT list of musical examples "connoting spinning, rotating, twirling, or whirling" (see Appendix). Twelve irregular and ambiguous meter signatures are excluded from the Barlow & Morgenstern corpus.…”

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Twirling Triplets: The Qualia of Rotation and Musical Rhythm

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Huron²

2019

Music & Science

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Creative productivity, age, and stress: A biographical time-series analysis of 10 classical composers.

Simonton¹

1977

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The determinants of creative productivity were specified in the form of six hypotheses. Using a multivariate cross-sectional time-series design with several controls, the lives and works of 10 classical composers were analyzed into consecutive 5-year age periods. Two independent measures of productivity were operationalized (works and themes), with each measure subdivided into major and minor compositions according to a citation criterion. It was consistently found across both productivity measures that (a) quality of productivity is a probabilistic consequence of productive quantity and (b) total productivity, while affected by age and physical illness, is otherwise free of external influences (viz., social reinforcement, biographical stress, war intensity, and internal disturbances). Due to the more selective nature of the thematic productivity measure, the criterion of total themes alone was affected by competition and a time-wise bias. The article closes with a brief discussion of the broad substantive utility of the methodological design.

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L-Systems, Melodies and Musical Structure

Mason¹,

Saffle²

1994

Leonardo Music Journal

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A Dictionary of Vocal Themes

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Twirling Triplets: The Qualia of Rotation and Musical Rhythm

Twirling Triplets: The Qualia of Rotation and Musical Rhythm

Creative productivity, age, and stress: A biographical time-series analysis of 10 classical composers.

L-Systems, Melodies and Musical Structure

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