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Cognitive Processes for Infering Tonic
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Student Research, Creative Activity, and Performance - School of Music Music, School of 8-2011 Cognitive Processes for Infering Tonic Steven J. Kaup University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/musicstudent Part of the Cognition and Perception Commons, Music Practice Commons, Music Theory Commons, and the Other Music Commons Kaup, Steven J., "Cognitive Processes for Infering Tonic" (2011). Student Research, Creative Activity, and Performance - School of Music. 46. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/musicstudent/46 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Music, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Research, Creative Activity, and Performance - School of Music by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. COGNITIVE PROCESSES FOR INFERRING TONIC by Steven J. Kaup A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Music Major: Music Under the Supervision of Professor Stanley V. Kleppinger Lincoln, Nebraska August, 2011 COGNITIVE PROCESSES FOR INFERRING TONIC Steven J. Kaup, M. M. University of Nebraska, 2011 Advisor: Stanley V. Kleppinger Research concerning cognitive processes for tonic inference is diverse involving approaches from several different perspectives. Outwardly, the ability to infer tonic seems fundamentally simple; yet it cannot be attributed to any single cognitive process, but is multi-faceted, engaging complex elements of the brain. This study will examine past research concerning tonic inference in light of current findings. -
Music to Your Ears
baffies them as much as Beethoven's ONWAI\D A ND UPWAI\D WITH THE AI\T5 Ninth. They match at music as we snatched at movies, filli ng our heads with plural images. A friend with whom MUSIC TO YOUR EARS I was brooding over the way recorded sound supplies a soundtrack for modem The questfor 3-D recording and other mysteries ifsound life said that I ought to seek out Edgar Choueiri, a rocket scientist- really, a BY ADAM GOPNIK rocket scientist!- who has spent a good part of his life worrying about such things. C houeiri, my friend said, had broken the code of something funda mental about the reproduction ofsou nd, and so I went to Princeton, where he has two laboratories, to seek him out. Those of us who have no laboratory at all might regard what Choueiri mod estly calls his "other'' laboratory as the only laboratory that anyone would ever need. It is the size of a small airplane hangar, and it is filled with plasma rocket engines that run on electricity: instead of a wasteful explosion of liquid fuel, a judicious leak of ions pushes the craft forward through a vacuum. If we ever start commuting to Mars, it will likely be a Choueiri-style engine that gets us there and back. The president of the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society, Choueiri is also the president of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences, and is very much, in spirit and appearance, a man of the old Levant. There's the elegant classical nose, the high, anxious brows, and the worried ex pression. -
Memory and Production of Standard Frequencies in College-Level Musicians Sarah E
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 2013 Memory and Production of Standard Frequencies in College-Level Musicians Sarah E. Weber University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses Part of the Cognition and Perception Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Music Education Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Weber, Sarah E., "Memory and Production of Standard Frequencies in College-Level Musicians" (2013). Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014. 1162. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1162 This thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Memory and Production of Standard Frequencies in College-Level Musicians A Thesis Presented by SARAH WEBER Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF MUSIC September 2013 Music Theory © Copyright by Sarah E. Weber 2013 All Rights Reserved Memory and Production of Standard Frequencies in College-Level Musicians A Thesis Presented by SARAH WEBER _____________________________ Gary S. Karpinski, Chair _____________________________ Andrew Cohen, Member _____________________________ Brent Auerbach, Member _____________________________ Jeff Cox, Department Head Department of Music and Dance DEDICATION For my parents and Grandma. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Kristen Wallentinsen for her help with experimental logistics, Renée Morgan for giving me her speakers, and Nathaniel Liberty for his unwavering support, problem-solving skills, and voice-over help. -
Walt Whitman, John Muir, and the Song of the Cosmos Jason Balserait Rollins College, [email protected]
Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Master of Liberal Studies Theses Spring 2014 The niU versal Roar: Walt Whitman, John Muir, and the Song of the Cosmos Jason Balserait Rollins College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls Part of the American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Balserait, Jason, "The nivU ersal Roar: Walt Whitman, John Muir, and the Song of the Cosmos" (2014). Master of Liberal Studies Theses. 54. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls/54 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Liberal Studies Theses by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Universal Roar: Walt Whitman, John Muir, and the Song of the Cosmos A Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Liberal Studies by Jason A. Balserait May, 2014 Mentor: Dr. Steve Phelan Reader: Dr. Joseph V. Siry Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Master of Liberal Studies Program Winter Park, Florida Acknowledgements There are a number of people who I would like to thank for making this dream possible. Steve Phelan, thank you for setting me on this path of self-discovery. Your infectious love for wild things and Whitman has changed my life. Joe Siry, thank you for support and invaluable guidance throughout this entire process. Melissa, my wife, thank you for your endless love and understanding. I cannot forget my two furry children, Willis and Aida Mae. -
Effects of Emergent-Level Structure on Melodic Processing Difficulty
96 Frank A. Russo, William Forde Thompson, & Lola L. Cuddy EFFECTS OF EMERGENT-LEVEL STRUCTURE ON MELODIC PROCESSING DIFFICULTY FRANK A. RUSSO words, does ease of processing depend in some manner Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada on emergent-level structure defined by theory? The current study investigates whether melodic processing WILLIAM FORDE THOMPSON difficulty varies with respect to music-theoretic descrip- Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia tions of emergent-level structure derived from the Implication-Realization (I-R) model (Narmour, 1990, LOLA L. CUDDY 1992). Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Two leading cognitive approaches to understanding melodic complexity include information-theoretic and FOUR EXPERIMENTS ASSESSED THE INFLUENCE dynamic attending models. Information-theoretic mod- of emergent-level structure on melodic processing dif- els have focused on the development of coding systems ficulty. Emergent-level structure was manipulated (Cuddy, Cohen, & Mewhort, 1981; Deutsch, 1980; Leeu- across experiments and defined with reference to the wenberg, 1969; Restle, 1970; Simon, 1972). A hierarchi- Implication-Realization model of melodic expectancy cal melody with surface- and emergent-level structure (Narmour, 1990, 1992, 2000). Two measures of melodic can be described economically using nested codes that processing difficulty were used to assess the influence of exploit redundancies. The codes are assumed to capture emergent-level structure: serial-reconstruction and important aspects of mental representation, and -
History of the School of Cognitive Science at Hampshire College
Stillings: History of CS 1 3-5-21 A history of the School of Cognitive Science at Hampshire College Neil Stillings Spring 2021 Preface I started teaching at Hampshire in the fall of 1971, the second year the college was open. I retired in June 2018, 47 years later. I write as a nearly founding faculty member of the college, as a founding faculty member of the School of Cognitive Science (CS), and as the School’s longest-serving member. In the fall of 2018, shortly after I retired, I began writing this history in the hope that it might inform or inspire future faculty and students as Cognitive Science approached its 50th anniversary at Hampshire. As I began writing, a series of events unfolded that threatened the survival of the college.1 In the aftermath about half of the college’s faculty left, either permanently or for indefinite “leave.” In particular all but two of 17 faculty members in Cognitive Science left the college, leaving the program with no faculty in its core areas of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and computer science.2 As of Spring 2021, in the current national environment of higher education, it is extremely unlikely that Hampshire, at the moment with less than half of its former student body, could rebuild Quickly enough to re-establish Cognitive Science. Further, the faculty who remain on campus have chosen to redesign the educational program in a way that suggests that they will no longer be organized into Schools. Thus, this document has become a history of the School of Cognitive Science from its beginning to its probable end, and, I hope, a source for anyone who does research on Hampshire’s history in the future.3 What were Hampshire’s Schools? Hampshire was founded to foster students’ intellectual curiosity, independence, and initiative, to demand their active engagement with ideas, and to de-emphasize the passive memorization of textbook material and the unQuestioning acQuiescence to external expectations in the Quest for grades. -
SMPC 2011 Attendees
Society for Music Perception and Cognition August 1114, 2011 Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester Rochester, NY Welcome Dear SMPC 2011 attendees, It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2011 meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. It is a great honor for Eastman to host this important gathering of researchers and students, from all over North America and beyond. At Eastman, we take great pride in the importance that we accord to the research aspects of a musical education. We recognize that music perception/cognition is an increasingly important part of musical scholarship‐‐and it has become a priority for us, both at Eastman and at the University of Rochester as a whole. This is reflected, for example, in our stewardship of the ESM/UR/Cornell Music Cognition Symposium, in the development of several new courses devoted to aspects of music perception/cognition, in the allocation of space and resources for a music cognition lab, and in the research activities of numerous faculty and students. We are thrilled, also, that the new Eastman East Wing of the school was completed in time to serve as the SMPC 2011 conference site. We trust you will enjoy these exceptional facilities, and will take pleasure in the superb musical entertainment provided by Eastman students during your stay. Welcome to Rochester, welcome to Eastman, welcome to SMPC 2011‐‐we're delighted to have you here! Sincerely, Douglas Lowry Dean Eastman School of Music SMPC 2011 Program and abstracts, Page: 2 Acknowledgements Monetary -
Music Perception 13
Music Perception 13 LEARNING OBJECTIVES ISLE EXERCISES 13.1 Kurdish Music Example 13.1 Explain how frequency is related to pitch, chroma, and the octave. 13.2 Javanese Gamelan Music Example 13.2 Summarize the basic neuroscience of music, including how training and experience can affect the representation of music in the brain. 13.3 Ancient Greek Music 13.4 35,000-Year-Old Flute 13.3 Discuss how learning and culture affect music perception. distribute 13.5 Is This Music? 13.6 The Octave and or Tone Similarity INTRODUCTION 13.7 Pentatonic Music 13.8 Meter and Beat Wherever you travel, you will find music. It may sound very different from the music you are accustomed to hearing, but you will recognize it instantly as music. In Kurdistan, we 13.9 Bolero Clip find a unique culture of music featuring such instrumentspost, as the tanbur (a fretted string 13.10 Attack and Decay instrument), the qernête (a double-reed wind instrument), and the şimşal (a flutelike 13.11 Examples of Melody instrument) (Figure 13.1). Although most of you may never have heard of these instru- ments and may never have heard Kurdish music before, you would instantly recognize 13.12 Types of Scales them as musical instruments, and you might even like Kurdish music (see ISLE 13.1 for 13.13 Gestalt Principles an example of Kurdish music). Review copy, © Aurora Photos/Alamy 13.14 Gestalt Principle: Proximity: Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E major not 13.15 A Shave and a Haircut 13.16 Cross-Modal Matchings as a Simulation of Synesthesia Do 13.17. -
Lecture Summaries
HST.725 Music Perception and Cognition, Spring 2009 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Course Director: Dr. Peter Cariani Topic Summaries for HST.725 2009 Peter Cariani Overview of the Course .................................................................................................................. 1 Psychological functions of music ................................................................................................... 1 Musical Sound ................................................................................................................................ 2 Auditory System Overview............................................................................................................. 2 Pitch ................................................................................................................................................ 4 Timbre............................................................................................................................................. 5 Consonance & dissonance .............................................................................................................. 5 Scales & Tuning.............................................................................................................................. 7 Melody & Harmony........................................................................................................................ 8 Rhythm......................................................................................................................................... -
Announcements
Empirical Musicology Review Vol. 1, No. 4, 2006 ANNOUNCEMENTS CALLS FOR PAPERS 17 Nov 2006 Deadline A conference on Language and Music as Cognitive Systems will be held May 11-13, 2007 at the University of Cambridge, UK. The event is structured around four core areas in which the collaboration between music and language has proven to be particularly fruitful: (1) Structural comparisons between language and music; (2) Evolution of language and music; (3) Learning and processing of language and music; and (4) Neuroscience of language and music. Keynote speakers will include Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University), Tecumseh Fitch (University of St. Andrews), Jamshed Bharucha (Tufts University), and Aniruddh Patel (The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego). Submission guidelines may be downloaded from the conference home page at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/language-music.html 15 Dec 2006 Deadline The 6th Creativity and Cognition Conference will be held June 13-15, 2007 in Washington, DC, USA. Proposals are welcomed from “researchers, developers, artists, practitioners, and policy-makers, including: computer and information scientists; diverse scientists, engineers, and architects; product, graphic, and interaction designers; writers, musicians, and digital artists; creative practitioners, corporate leaders, and educators; social scientists, ethnographers, and anthropologists.” The full call for proposals is available at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/call/index.shtml 15 Feb 2007 Deadline SMPC 2007, the biennial meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, will take place at Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) from July 30 to August 3, 2007. Paper and poster proposals in the areas of music theory, psychology, psychophysics, linguistics, neurology, neurophysiology, ethology, ethnomusicology, artificial intelligence, computer technology, physics, and engineering are welcomed, as are proposals for symposia. -
Our Varying Histories and Future Potential: Models and Maps In
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers (Music) Department of Music 9-2011 Our Varying Histories and Future Potential: Models and Maps in Science, the Humanities, and in Music Theory Eugene Narmour University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.upenn.edu/music_papers Part of the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Narmour, E. (2011). Our Varying Histories and Future Potential: Models and Maps in Science, the Humanities, and in Music Theory. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 29 (1), 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2011.29.1.1 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/music_papers/2 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Our Varying Histories and Future Potential: Models and Maps in Science, the Humanities, and in Music Theory Abstract Part 1 briefly er counts the influence of social unrest and the explosion of knowledge in both psychology and the humanities circa 1970-1990. As the sciences rely on explicit top-down theories connected to bottom-up maps and models, and whereas the humanities build on bottom-up differences within malleable top-down “theories” (approaches, themes, theses, programs, methods, etc.), the changes in the sciences during this period contrasted sharply with the changes in the humanities. Part 2 discusses in detail how these two social transformations affected the histories of music theory and cognitive music theory. The former fractiously withdrew from its parent organization (AMS), whereas the latter was welcomed into SMPC. Inasmuch as both music theory and cognitive music theory rely on maps and models, Part 3 examines the metatheoretical importance of these terms for music cognition, music theory, and cognitive music theory. -
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MUSIC Isabelle Peretz Robert J. Zatorre Editors OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Zat-fm.qxd 6/5/03 11:16 PM Page i THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MUSIC This page intentionally left blank THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MUSIC Edited by ISABELLE PERETZ Départment de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada and ROBERT J. ZATORRE Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada 1 Zat-fm.qxd 6/5/03 11:16 PM Page iv 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © The New York Academy of Sciences, Chapters 1–7, 9–20, and 22–8, and Oxford University Press, Chapters 8 and 21. Most of the materials in this book originally appeared in The Biological Foundations of Music, published as Volume 930 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, June 2001 (ISBN 1-57331-306-8). This book is an expanded version of the original Annals volume. The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2003 All rights reserved.