PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Interval Ratio, Relative Pitch, Melodic Pattern
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Psy274: human communication: march 22, 2017: lecture 10: music part i. *in this class we are thinking of music in its unprofessionalized form. Language fits into this framework, buts does music. If the mother needed to use her hands she needed to put the baby down, so the music (sound) was used to calm the baby down: transgenerational communication of information: talks about some event of the past. But only makes sense with language so is the music important to this information or does it just make stories fun: social emotional cohesion: it makes people feel together, promotes group identity. Written form does not allow same kind of appreciation. Signed vs. spoken; written - all are meaningful. Infants treat relative pitch levels as important in recognizing melodies (transposed melodies are not treated as a change, in the same way as a change to the pattern itself: tempo, relative information is important. First-learned later learned later still last learned.
