PSYC56H3 Lecture Notes - Multidimensional Scaling, Serialism, Indian Rock
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Krumhansl & shepard played listeners a musical context, and this context was intended to unambiguously set up the tonality. They followed that context with a probe tone and asked listeners how well that probe tone fit in with the musical passage. Krumhansl & kessl decided let"s try scales, single chords, and did a bunch of musical contexts. Replicated the original result, suggesting theoretical hierarchy of stability is reflected in listener"s perception of tones. This tonal hierarchy pattern seems to hold for major and minor keys. They tried different tonalities and they tried a musical context built on the note f#. They found the profile for f# major was exactly the same for c# major just shifted over. They argued tonal hierarchy is abstract representation of the tones and doesn"t depend on any particular key. It can be produced using different tonal context. And she did this for both major and minor.
