The original edition of The Geometry of Musical Rhythm was the first book to provide a
systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the …

This study of Finnish spiritual folk hymns combined three approaches to understanding
melodic expectation. The first approach was a statistical style analysis of a representative …

Listeners are sensitive to pitch distributional information in music (N. Oram & LL Cuddy,
1995; CL Krumhansl, J. Louhivuori, P. Toiviainen, T. Järvinen, & T. Eerola, 1999). However …

The identity of a melody resides in its sequence of pitches and durations, both of which
exhibit surface details as well as structural properties. In this study, pitch contour (pattern of …

Results FIGURE Tomovski 10.2 (2000). The from top the figure two graphs experiments the
correlation of Schmuckler between and the averaged probe tone ratings and the tonal …

Among other cues, pitch and temporal accents contribute to grou** in musical sequences.
However, exactly how they combine remains unclear, possibly because of the role of …

Melody is the most ubiquitous form of musical structure with which listeners come into
contact on a daily basis. Mirroring the prevalence and importance of melody, research in …

In two experiments participants rated the similarity of melodic contours presented as auditory
(melodies) and visual (line drawings) stimuli. Longer melodies were assessed in Experiment …

Although the relatively recent proliferation of research into musical contour theory has
indeed yielded a plethora of vital analytical and methodological insights, a crucial …

We examined the emotional effects of (a) a rising versus a falling chromatic tone sequence
in the background of audio news and (b) foreground versus background diatonic and …