PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Long-Term Memory, Melodic Pattern, Roman Numerals
30 Dec 2016
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May be too restrictive to view contribution of music to cognitive research by studying only stimulus complexity. Slobola: prime feature of music is to evoke feelings and emotions. 2 conceptions of music: studies way that info is organized so they can organize the acoustical field and perceive musical forms. (produce mental representations. contribute input for #2. , studies symbolic interpretation of those forms. Part 1: concern"s listener"s abstract musical knowledge structures. Knowledge plays big role in perception of music. This shows how such knowledge is structured. Part 2: how knowledge is used and combined with various processes of perceptual organization during event structure processing (during real time processing of musical info) Part 3: once event structure is organized, symbolizing processes are now involved. Abstract musical knowledge takes 2 distinct forms: relations among musical categories (pitch, scale, tonal/metric hierarchies, abstract patterns that are frequently encountered.
