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Mental representations for musical meter.

C Palmer1, C L Krumhansl

  • 1Psychology Department, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|November 1, 1990
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This study reveals an internalized hierarchy in how we perceive musical meter. Evidence from musical patterns, listener judgments, and memory errors suggests a structured mental representation influencing music perception and creation.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Music Cognition
  • Psychoacoustics

Background:

  • Musical meter involves an internalized hierarchy influencing perception.
  • Previous research explored this hierarchy through various methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the psychological representation of musical meter.
  • To provide evidence for an internalized hierarchical structure in meter perception.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of frequency distributions in musical compositions.
  • Assessing goodness-of-fit judgments for temporal patterns in metrical contexts.
  • Examining memory confusions in temporal pattern discrimination tasks.

Main Results:

  • Frequency of musical events correlates with meter differentiation and accent placement predictions.

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  • Listener judgments reveal a multi-leveled hierarchy of accent strength, more detailed in experienced musicians.
  • Memory confusions reflect the same inferred accent strength hierarchy.

    • Conclusions:

    • Findings suggest mental representations for structural regularities underlie musical meter.
    • These representations influence music perception, memory, and composition.
    • An internalized hierarchical structure is key to understanding musical meter.