This study investigates whether listening to an excerpt of music in audio-only or audio-video contexts affects perceptual ratings, and what the relationship of the context presentation is to perceptual ratings. Participants ...

This paper is an attempt to explicate the concept of "kuvunga," an important term to Zambian Luvale drummers. Drums kuvunga when they produce a composite melody. While these composites have long been understood as vital ...

Self-organized systems emphasize Gibson's (1966) proposal that organisms and the environment are one coupled system. As a result, energy flow throughout the system allows its subsystems to utilize it in a meaningful way. ...

To understand and formalize the perceptual outcomes produced by certain orchestration techniques, researchers studying the psychology of timbre rely largely on combining the listeners perception reports with audio analysis ...

A relatively new auditory theory describes how representations of the spectrum are transformed and sharpened in the early (below the cortex, or sub-cortical) auditory system (Carney, 2018). The current article introduces ...

This paper describes a new corpus of texture, timbre, and lyrical information within 20th century American popular music, parameters which recent research has suggested play crucial roles in how this music is consumed and ...

We investigated whether speakers use pitch to signal hierarchical metric structure in productions of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat, by modeling fundamental frequency (F0) of monosyllabic words as a function of metric ...

Sight-singing is challenging for many music students, yet they can experience various difficulties with this task. To explore how cognitive load (CL) might differ among students, we combined two approaches: 1) a quantitative ...

Complexity of a piece should also be related to its intended use and context. The Mass Ordinary cycles of 15th- and 16th-c. Europe were works of exceptional formal consistency, and if complexity is relevant to the role of ...