PSY387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Serialism, Atonality, Typical Male
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Two main factors: parental involvement, self-motivation (from adolescence onward, how do we explain musical prodigies and savants without referring to talent, and talented people may be prone to practice. Analysis-by-synthesis: synthesizing melodies to determine (cid:498)rules(cid:499) of expressive performance. Singing: problem- vowels tend to sound the same at high frequencies (context can help) Evaluating performance: evaluating music performance is an obsession in western (?) culture, bias in judgments, poor intra-individual reliability, poor inter-individual reliability, effects of order, prior expectations. Tsay (2013: clips from live music competitions, task- who won the competition, conclusions- visuals matter more than sound when judging who won. Including sound with visuals makes judgments worse than visual alone: audio itself is worst of all, nonmusicians, comparison of reported importance of sound vs. visuals for evaluation (left), with. % identifying actual outcomes when given sound-only vs. video-only stimulus: professional musicians, comparison of reported importance of sound vs. visuals for evaluation (left), with.
