BCS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Relative Pitch, Long Term Ecological Research Network, University Of Manchester
26 Sep 2016
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How do we store melody in memory? what makes one melody seem similar to another what makes some melodies easier to learn than others. Question of encoding if you can store it in memoryyou can encode it (probably @ unconscious level) you can hear tonal melody & sing it back just hearing it once- or distinguish it from another melody. How do we encode melodies? possibilities encode melody after rst note as a series of intervals encode melody as a series of scale-degrees: pitches in relation to the tonic. Deutsch (1980) experiment w/ trained musicians where she played melodies & had them write them down. Deutsch study also manipulates the rhythm of the structured melodies factors that cause us to group notes together in time rhythm is one part (proximity in time) gestalt similarity patterns. Short? prevents recognition of lyrics or relative pitch relations, or rhythms billboard hot 100 songs 5 songs college psych students.
