...Laure-Hélène Canette; Philippe Lalitte; Barbara Tillmann; Emmanuel Bigand Conceptual priming studies have shown that listening to musical primes triggers semantic activation. The present study further investigated with a free semantic evocation task, 1) how rhythmic vs. textural structures affect...

... © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 attention texture melody counterpoint music and probability REPETITION AND PROMINENCE: THE PROBABILISTIC STRUCTURE OF MELODIC AND NON-MELODIC LINES BEN DUANE Washington University in St. Louis THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE DIFFERENCE...

...Cecilia Taher; René Rusch; Stephen McAdams Repetition and novelty are essential components of tonal music. Previous research suggests that the degree of repetitiveness of a line can determine its relative melodicity within a musical texture. Concordantly, musical accompaniments tend to be highly...