Comment on Huron and Veltman: Does a Cognitive Approach to Medieval Mode Make Sense?

Wiering, Frans

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“…The topic of the emergence of major-minor tonality is as broad as it is controversial. For some the transition to tonality began as far back as the early fifteenth century, whereas for others the year 1700 is an important threshold (Wiering, 2006). Controversy too surrounds that which preceded common practice period tonality.…”

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Modes on the Move: Interval Cycles and the Emergence of Major-Minor Tonality

Woolhouse¹

2010

Empirical Musicology Review

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The issue of the emergence of major-minor tonality is addressed by recourse to a novel pitch grouping process, referred to as interval cycle proximity (ICP). An interval cycle is the minimum number of (additive) iterations of an interval that are required for octave-related pitches to be re-stated, a property conjectured to be responsible for tonal attraction. It is hypothesised that the actuation of ICP in cognition, possibly in the latter part of the sixteenth century, led to a hierarchy of tonal attraction which favoured certain pitches over others, ostensibly the tonics of the modern major and minor system. An ICP model is described that calculates the level of tonal attraction between adjacent musical elements. The predictions of the model are shown to be consistent with music-theoretic accounts of common practice period tonality, including Piston's Table of Usual Root Progressions. The development of tonality is illustrated with the historical quotations of commentators from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and can be characterised as follows. At the beginning of the seventeenth century multiple 'finals' were possible, each associated with a different interval configuration (mode). By the end of the seventeenth century, however, only two interval configurations were in regular use: those pertaining to the modern majorminor key system. The implications of this development are discussed with respect interval cycles and their hypothesised effect within music.

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Modes on the Move: Interval Cycles and the Emergence of Major-Minor Tonality

Woolhouse¹

2010

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“…So far, the matter of tonal organization has received the attention of empirical researchers only in relation to the tonal organization of Western tonality. Attempts to extend the methodology of psychological investigation of tonality, such as to include the historically earlier modal forms of tonal organization (Huron & Veltman, 2006) drew criticism from expert musicologists, revealing deficiencies in music theory, namely: a lack of clarity in definition of modality and in its exact implementation in music of specific historic periods (Wiering, 2006). This book seeks to fill the void in the taxonomy of different forms of tonality and modality, intervallic typology and schemes of tonal relations-to arm an empirical researcher with the tools for experimental investigation of all forms of tonal organization in all kinds of music.…”

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Music Cognition from Birth to Adolescence: A Structuralist Approach

Nikolsky¹

2022

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This book draws a new perspective on music as a special form of cognition that provides growing children with the means to mediate their emotional state and attitude to suit their physical and social environment. My conclusions are based on new evidence coming from: 1) musicological analysis of the original and spontaneous vocalizations by children, selected to represent the milestones in the development of music cognition; 2) comprehensive research on "ear development" throughout early childhood, systematically conducted in the USSR/Russia on a large pool of subjects during the 1920-1980s; 3) data on music perception by people habituated to non-Western forms of music, including timbre-oriented music traditions of northeast Eurasia; and 4) research coming from Vygotskian school on sociogenesis and objectivization of musical sound in early childhood (published in Russian only). The principal objective of this book is to arm researchers and students with tools to analyze, interpret, and evaluate the patterns of tonal organization in children musicking - and to inter-relate these patterns to cross-cultural patterns of early verbal, social, and emotional development. Children’s musical cognition needs a thorough revision because of the old erroneous belief, still widespread amongst developmental psychologists, that the principles of Western tonality constitute a universal modus operandi, intuitively sought by children from birth. According to this view, early children’s musicking constitutes a “defective” implementation of adult’s music due to children’s deficiencies in vocal control and its coordination with hearing. In reality, early childhood musicking constitutes a peculiar type of music, different from adult’s music – very much like children’s early speech that follows its own principles, different from adult’s speech. The principles of children’s musicking ought to be inferred from the structural organization of their non-imitative attempts to make music - bottom-to-top (as opposed to the current "a priori" top-to-bottom method of describing children's music in terms of Western tonality). Some other important issues covered in this book are the goals of musical development in childhood, the issues of musical attrition, bimusicality, and normalcy of musical abilities, the modularity of musical hearing, and the relation between musical and real-life emotions.

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Mode classification and natural units in plainchant

Cornelissen

Zuidema

Burgoyne

2020

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Comment on Huron and Veltman: Does a Cognitive Approach to Medieval Mode Make Sense?

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Modes on the Move: Interval Cycles and the Emergence of Major-Minor Tonality

Modes on the Move: Interval Cycles and the Emergence of Major-Minor Tonality

Music Cognition from Birth to Adolescence: A Structuralist Approach

Mode classification and natural units in plainchant

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