... hierarchizable) are more likely to appear as scales (p ¼ .002). Received: June 23, 2016, accepted November 7, 2016. Key words: scales, scale candidacy, properties of scales, universal constraints on music, hierarchy T HERE ARE ENOUGH INTUITIVE SIMILARITIESbetween scales from divergent musical culturesto suggest...

... and nonmusicians attending primarily to the soprano voice. 22 6 2012 20 9 2013 © 2014 by The Regents of the University of California 2014 cadence closure hierarchy schema Mozart PERCEIVING THE CLASSICAL CADENCE DAVID SEARS, WILLIAM E. CAPLIN, & STEPHEN MCADAMS McGill University...

... of occurrence of each of the 12 pitch classes at all possible temporal positions in the bar. There was a reliable relation between the tonal and metric hierarchies, such that tonally stable pitch classes and metrically stable temporal positions co-occurred beyond their simple joint probability. Further...

... Music Building, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 e-mail: [email protected] 9 April 2010 6 August 2011 © 2012 by The Regents of the University of California 2012 repetition repeated exposures attention hierarchy form Musical Repetition Detection Across Multiple...

... for the analysis of musical styles and repertoires; other possible refinements are discussed. Received September 8, 2010, accepted April 28, 2011. Key words: meter, rhythm, variability, nPVI, hierarchy The normalized pairwise variability index (npvi,) was originally developed to measure the vari-ability of surface...