PSYC 213 Chapter 8.6: 8.6
3 Mar 2017
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The bedzan songs have no or few words, other than those of the incipit sung by a soloist, with the contrapuntists singing with vowels [o] and [e], with no notable differences in intensity. In this video, the researchers record the singers on separate tracks while they are singing together. Then they progressively mistune the voices of some of the lines. When the intervals fall outside the acceptable range as shown in the previous slide, the pygmies indicate that it isn"t right. Bobby mcferrin demonstrates that people have schemata for the pentatonic scale, i. e. , they know what the next note in the scale should be. Musical schemata effects of reinterpretation of musical meaning as a function of key context. Carol krumhansl (and roger shepard) developed the probe-tone technique in order to test the effect of musical context (an evoked scale) on the perception of relations among tones.
