Dynamic melodic expectancy

 
 
 
 

Dynamic melodic expectancy

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dc.contributor.advisor Huron, David B. en_US
dc.contributor.author Aarden, Bret J. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-07-07T19:29:39Z
dc.date.available 2008-07-07T19:29:39Z
dc.date.created 2003 en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-07-07T19:29:39Z
dc.identifier.uri http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1060969388 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/8109
dc.description The most common method for measuring melodic expectancy is the “probe-tone” design, which relies on a retrospective report of expectancy. Here a direct measure of expectancy is introduced, one that uses a speeded, serial categorization task. An analysis of the reaction time data showed that “Implication-Realization” contour models of melodic expectancy provide a good fit. Further analysis suggests that some assumptions of these contour models may not be valid. The traditional “key profile” model of tonality was not found to contribute significantly to the model. Following Krumhansl’s (1990) argument that tonality is learned from the statistical distribution of scale degrees, a tonality model based on the actual probability of scale degrees did significantly improve the fit of the model. It is proposed that the probe-tone method for measuring key profiles encourages listeners to treat the probe tone as being in phrase-final position. Indeed, the key profile was found to be much more similar to the distribution of phrase-final notes than to the distribution of all melodic notes. A second experiment measured reaction times to notes that subjects expected to be phrase-final. In this experiment the key profile contributed significantly to the fit of the model. It is concluded that the probe-tone design creates a task demand to hear the tone as a phrase-final note, and the key profile reflects a learned sensitivity to the distribution of notes at ends of melodies. The “key profile” produced by the new reaction-time design is apparently related to the general distribution of notes in melodies. The results of this study indicate that the relationship between melodic structure and melodic expectation is more straightforward than has been previously demonstrated. Melodic expectation appears to be related directly to the structure and distribution of events in the music. en_US
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dc.format 119p. en_US
dc.rights unrestricted en_US
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dc.subject melodic expectancy en_US
dc.subject music theory en_US
dc.subject music cognition en_US
dc.subject music perception en_US
dc.subject tonality en_US
dc.subject key profiles en_US
dc.subject tonal hierarchy en_US
dc.subject reaction time en_US
dc.subject retrospective perception en_US
dc.subject probe tone en_US
dc.subject Implication-Realization theory en_US
dc.subject information theory en_US
dc.title Dynamic melodic expectancy en_US
dc.type Electronic Thesis or Dissertation en_US
dc.degree.name PhD en_US
dc.degree.level doctoral en_US
dc.degree.discipline Music en_US
dc.degree.grantor Ohio State University en_US
dc.contributor.publisher Ohio State University / OhioLINK en_US

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