Commentary on William Thomson's "Pitch Frames as Melodic Archetypes"

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2006-04

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Empirical Musicology Review

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While the concept of the perceptual “pitch frame” resembles leading theories of pitch structure in music in some respects, it contains some innovative elements that are discussed in this commentary. Additionally, the commentary focuses on the question of whether the “pitch frame” is a temporal or atemporal construct.

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perception, tonality, modality, melody, harmony, pitch space, temporal

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Empirical Musicology Review, v1 n2 (April 2006), 103-105