...Timothy P. Byron; Carl T. Rushworth; Maxwell J. Stewart Hooks are a widely recognized feature of popular music. Despite this, few empirical studies have investigated what makes musical material likely to be a hook. Definitions of hooks consistently refer to both salience and memorability...

[email protected] 15 7 2022 8 6 2023 © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 live performance popular music audience arousal valence Within the popular music sector, the significance of live music is increasing; at least it was until the start of the Covid-19...

...Toni A. Bechtold; Lorenz Kilchenmann; Ben Curry; Maria A. G. Witek Groove and catchiness are central properties of popular music that frequently appear together. Yet, a possible relationship has neither been postulated nor examined. In music psychology, groove is commonly understood...

... of California 2022 music memory plink absolute pitch timbre popular music Auditory scientists have utilized brief sound stimuli to investigate the psychological processes that enable humans to rapidly extract acoustic information and perform tasks such as sound identification, speech...

... tone pitch popular music style The introduction of the probe tone paradigm by Krumhansl and colleagues (Krumhansl & Kessler, 1982 ; Krumhansl & Shepard, 1979 ) offered music cognition researchers a groundbreaking tool to investigate the mental representation of complex tonal structure...

... on a weak beat with a rest (or continuation) on the following strong beat. They present corpus evidence that syncopation, as they define it, increased in frequency from the 1890s to the 1930s in American popular music. Both the Longuet-Higgins/Lee (1984) and Huron/Ommen (2006) models define...

...Shannon L. Layman; W. Jay Dowling Previous research indicates that people gain musical information from short (250 ms) segments of music. This study extended previous findings by presenting shorter (100 ms, 150 ms, and 200 ms) segments of Western popular music in rapid temporal arrays; similar...

.... This aligns well with corpus data representing the frequency of different modes in popular music. There was also a significant interaction between ending and context, whereby listeners rated an ending higher if its mode matched the context. Our findings suggest that (1) our earlier “happiness” results cannot...

... classical and popular music, is the happiest, and happiness declines with increasing distance from Ionian. However, familiarity does not entirely explain our results. Familiarity predicts that Mixolydian would be happier than Lydian (since they are equally similar to Ionian, and Mixolydian is much more...

... October 2011 7 March 2012 © 2012 by The Regents of the University of California 2012 informal singing popular music music in everyday life neo-tribes random forest statistical model The Science of Singing Along 129 Music Perception volume 30, issue 2, pp. 129 146. issn 0730-7829...

... information. © 2010 By the Regents of the University of California music memory meta-memory popular music emotion style Thin Slices of Music 337 PLINK: THIN SLICES OF MUSIC CAROL L. KRUMHANSL Cornell University SHORT CLIPS (300 AND 400 MS), TAKEN FROM POPULAR songs from the 1960 s through...