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Modeling perceived relationships between melody, harmony, and key

W F Thompson1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Atkinson College, York University, North York, ON, Canada.

Perception & Psychophysics
|January 1, 1993
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Listeners perceive musical consistency between single voices and harmonic sequences based on melody, chord progression, and key structure. Key changes reduce sensitivity to these congruency factors, suggesting a hierarchical processing system.

Area of Science:

  • Music Perception
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychoacoustics

Background:

  • Understanding how listeners perceive the relationship between melodic lines and harmonic progressions is crucial in music cognition.
  • Previous research has explored factors influencing musical judgments, but the interplay between melody, harmony, and key structure requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the perceptual relationships between four-voice harmonic sequences and single voices.
  • To determine the specific factors (melody, chord progression, key structure) influencing judgments of musical consistency.
  • To explore the role of key changes and modulation in these perceptual relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted involving listener ratings of musical consistency and well-formedness.

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  • Listeners evaluated single voices against harmonic sequences, considering melody, chord progression, and key structure.
  • A multiple regression analysis was used to assess the contribution of different congruency sources.

    • Main Results:

    • Listener judgments of musical consistency were influenced by melody, chord progression, and key structure when harmonic sequences did not change key.
    • Sensitivity to these congruency sources decreased when key changes occurred.
    • Discrimination of modulation was greater for single voices than for harmonic sequences, suggesting melody-based key abstraction.

    Conclusions:

    • Musical consistency perception is based on multiple congruency factors, including melody, harmony, and key.
    • Key changes modulate the listener's reliance on these factors.
    • A partially hierarchical system for processing melody, harmony, and key in music perception is proposed.