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Simultaneous Consonance in Music Perception and Composition
- Source :
- Harrison, P M C & Pearce, M T 2020, ' Simultaneous Consonance in Music Perception and Composition ', Psychological Review, vol. 127, no. 2, pp. 216-244 . https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000169, Psychological Review
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Simultaneous consonance is a salient perceptual phenomenon corresponding to the perceived pleasantness of simultaneously sounding musical tones. Various competing theories of consonance have been proposed over the centuries, but recently a consensus has developed that simultaneous consonance is primarily driven by harmonicity perception. Here we question this view, substantiating our argument by critically reviewing historic consonance research from a broad variety of disciplines, reanalyzing consonance perception data from 4 previous behavioral studies representing more than 500 participants, and modeling three Western musical corpora representing more than 100,000 compositions. We conclude that simultaneous consonance is a composite phenomenon that derives in large part from three phenomena: interference, periodicity/harmonicity, and cultural familiarity. We formalize this conclusion with a computational model that predicts a musical chord's simultaneous consonance from these three features, and release this model in an open-source R package, incon, alongside 15 other computational models also evaluated in this paper. We hope that this package will facilitate further psychological and musicological research into simultaneous consonance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- Pleasure
Time Factors
VIRTUAL-PITCH
media_common.quotation_subject
Culture
COMPUTER-MODEL
Musical
consonance
Models, Psychological
perception
01 natural sciences
INTERVALS
050105 experimental psychology
HARMONY PERCEPTION
TONAL CONSONANCE
Argument
Perception
Phenomenon
0103 physical sciences
Cognitive dissonance
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
music
010301 acoustics
General Psychology
media_common
ACOUSTIC COMPONENT
Computational model
05 social sciences
Recognition, Psychology
Articles
Musical tone
dissonance
CALCULATING SENSORY DISSONANCE
Salient
composition
COMPLEX TONES
Auditory Perception
PHASE SENSITIVITY
AUDITORY PERIPHERY
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Harrison, P M C & Pearce, M T 2020, ' Simultaneous Consonance in Music Perception and Composition ', Psychological Review, vol. 127, no. 2, pp. 216-244 . https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000169, Psychological Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2e475b874ed54edd4f805ddc92fb5b6a