Auditory Illusions Demonstrating That Tones Are Assimilated to an Internalized Musical Scale
- 14 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 226 (4680) , 1333-1334
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.226.4680.1333
Abstract
Judgments of relations between tones in a sequence derived from the major diatonic scale (do, re, mi, . . .) by systematic distortions (either equalization or stretching of intervals) reveal that Western listeners interpret the tones relative to that musical scale even when they try to judge the purely physical relations between the tones.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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