Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses

N Di Stefano, P Vuust, E Brattico - Physics of Life Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D)
are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …

Simultaneous consonance in music perception and composition.

P Harrison, MT Pearce - Psychological Review, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Simultaneous consonance is a salient perceptual phenomenon corresponding to the
perceived pleasantness of simultaneously sounding musical tones. Various competing …

The pleasantness of sensory dissonance is mediated by musical style and expertise

T Popescu, MP Neuser, M Neuwirth, F Bravo… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Western musical styles use a large variety of chords and vertical sonorities. Based on
objective acoustical properties, chords can be situated on a dissonant-consonant …

Why musical emotion can be induced by harmony? The effect and cognitive mechanism of musical consonance

H ZHANG, L MENG, J ZHANG - Advances in Psychological …, 2022 - journal.psych.ac.cn
Music has a significant and far-reaching impact on human society. Archaeological evidence
shows that music first emerged at least 3.5 billion years (Paleolithic Period) ago. Such …

On the role of the hand in the expression of music

M Leman, L Nijs, N Di Stefano - The hand: Perception, cognition, action, 2017 - Springer
In diverse interaction processes that characterize music experience, the human hand can be
seen as a mediator and facilitator for the brain's processing of musical expressive patterns …

Computational approach to musical consonance and dissonance

LL Trulla, N Di Stefano, A Giuliani - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In sixth century BC, Pythagoras discovered the mathematical foundation of musical
consonance and dissonance. When auditory frequencies in small-integer ratios are …

Musical development of young children of the Chinese diaspora in London

YT Wu - 2018 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The thesis investigates the musical behaviour and development of young, pre-school
children of the Chinese diaspora in London. There has been rapid growth in the Chinese …

Musicality across the lifespan

SE Trehub, MW Weiss, LK Cirelli - Foundations in music …, 2019 - books.google.com
Musicality, a uniquely human and spontaneously develo** trait that enables us to
perceive music, move to it, and sing, is influenced by biological, cognitive, and cultural …

Simultaneous consonance in the perception and composition of Western music

P Harrison, M Pearce - 2019 - osf.io
Simultaneous consonance is a salient perceptual phenomenon corresponding to the
perceived pleasantness of simultaneously sounding musical tones. Various competing …

Electrophysiological responses reveal a dedicated learning mechanism to process salient consonant sounds in human newborns

P Barbieri, P Sarasso, A Rossi Sebastiano, J Frascaroli… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Isolating relevant sounds in the auditory stream is a crucial feature accomplished by human
infants and a pivotal ability for language acquisition. Therefore, it is reasonable to postulate …