chapter 13: perceiving music Flashcards
(22 cards)
what are the qualities of music ?
pitch, melody, temporal structure, timbre, harmony, consonance, and dissonance
pitch
organized into high and low pitches
melody
sequence of pitches, perceived as belonging together
temporal structure
beat, organization of beats into measures (meter), time pattern (rhythm)
timbre
qualities of sound (different instruments make different sounds)
harmony, consonance, dissonance
when two or more tones are played together and the outcome of that union
emotions and memories from music activate what brain regions ?
hippocampus and limbic system
when is there more brain connectivity to subcortical structures ?
when there is an obvious beat compared to no clear beat
syncopation
the rhythm is not in line with the beat
what are the three conditions of music ?
tapping with the beat, active listening, and passive listening
melody
sequence of notes that belong together and sound musical
gap fill
large gap in the melody that turns into filling the gap with shorter semitones
intervals within a musical phrase average how many semitones ?
2.0
intervals between musical phrases average how many semitones ?
2.9
tonality
the ways in which notes in music vary between highly stable and highly unstable
cloze probability task
participants listen to a melody which abruptly stops and they have to complete the novel melody (about 80% of participants sing the tonic note)
cognitivist approach
listeners can perceive the emotional meaning of a piece of music, but don’t actually feel the emotions
emotivist approach
listeners emotional response to music involves actually feeling the emotions
what two keys give happy emotion ?
major key and fast tempo
musical syntax
rules that specify how notes and chords should be combined in notes
P600 response
positive going deflection, peaks around 600 ms
what drug blocks pleasure and reduces the emotional response to music ?
naltrexone
