The Perceptual Structure of Thematic Materials in The Angel of Death

Alitte, Philippe L; Igand, Emmanuel B; Oulin, Bénédicte P; Adams, Stephen Mc; Elbé, Charles D

doi:10.1525/mp.2004.22.2.265

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“…Evidence on failure of perception of large-scale musical features such as tonal closure support this view (Cook, 1987). Evidence on the short time scale does suggest that listeners perceive segmentation in a manner largely influenced by surface events in the sound stream (Deliège, et al, 1996;Lalitte et al, 2004). The approach taken in the current study allows listeners to identify change for themselves, and deals directly with the sonic temporal patterns that they hear, and which therefore are likely to influence them affectively.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 57%

Time Series Analysis as a Method to Examine Acoustical Influences on Real-time Perception of Music

Dean¹,

Bailes²

2010

Empirical Musicology Review

104

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Multivariate analyses of dynamic correlations between continuous acoustic properties (intensity and spectral flatness) and real-time listener perceptions of change and expressed affect (arousal and valence) in music are developed, by an extensive application of autoregressive Time Series Analysis (TSA). TSA offers a large suite of techniques for modeling autocorrelated time series, such as constitute both music's acoustic properties and its perceptual impacts. A logical analysis sequence from autoregressive integrated moving average regression with exogenous variables (ARIMAX), to vector autoregression (VAR) is established. Information criteria discriminate amongst models, and Granger Causality indicates whether a correlation might be a causal one. A 3 min electroacoustic extract from Wishart's Red Bird is studied. It contains digitally generated and transformed sounds, and animate sounds, and our approach also permits an analysis of their impulse action on the temporal evolution and the variance in the perceptual time series. Intensity influences perceptions of change and expressed arousal substantially. Spectral flatness influences valence, while animate sounds influence the valence response and its variance. This TSA approach is applicable to a wide range of questions concerning acousticperceptual relationships in music.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 57%

Time Series Analysis as a Method to Examine Acoustical Influences on Real-time Perception of Music

Dean¹,

Bailes²

2010

Empirical Musicology Review

104

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“…This set of data is all the more puzzling in that other studies carried out with atonal musical pieces revealed some ability to perceive the overall organization of a musical atonal piece (Deliège;Clarke & Krumhansl, 1990). Lalitte et al (2004) investigated the perceptual structure of the five themes of The Angel of Death by Roger Reynolds. In the first phase, participants performed segmentation of the musical ideas while listening to the piece.…”

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On Listening to Atonal Variants of Two Piano Sonatas by Beethoven

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WE INVESTIGATED THE CONTRIBUTION OF TONAL relationships to the perception of musical ideas and to the feelings of "arousal." Two excerpts of piano sonatas by Beethoven and two atonal variants were used as experimental stimuli. This manipulation destroyed the tonal relationships but preserved both the local and global temporal organization (rhythm and formal). Listeners were asked to indicate the onset of musical ideas, to estimate the arousing properties of the music in a continuous response task, and to rate the similarity of the pieces. A drastic change in the pitch structure strongly affected judgments of similarity. However, it had no effect on the segmentation of musical ideas, nor on the response of arousal. This finding emphasizes the importance of local and global levels of temporal structures on perceptual and emotional judgments, at the cost of the influence of tonal relationships.

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“…This latter result demonstrates the role of dynamic memory processes in macrostructural perception in the absence of strong discontinuities in the musical surface. Taken together, these results suggest that this technique is sensitive to structural properties at different levels of abstraction from the sound events, including qualitative and temporal discontinuities, structural markers such as repetition and return, and rhetorical functions such as continuity, development, and digression (see Lalitte et al, 2004). Weak discontinuity NOTE-I = Instrumentation, MT = musical texture, TD = temporal density, D = dynamics, P = existence of a pause or silence.…”

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“…Each theme is composed of several subsections, one of which is considered to be central to the temporal trajectory of the theme: the core element (gray rectangles in Fig. 1; see Lalitte et al, 2004). In addition to the themes, there are other developmental sections in which transitions between thematic materials occur (TR13, TR24) or in which thematic materials are combined in parallel (CB24, CB35, CB123).…”

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Influences of Large-Scale Form on Continuous Ratings in Response to a Contemporary Piece in a Live Concert Setting

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Listeners responded continuously at the world and North American premiere concerts of The Angel of Death by Roger Reynolds using one of two rating scales: familiarity or resemblance of musical materials within the piece and emotional force. Two versions of the piece were tested in each concert in different presentation orders. Functional data analysis revealed the influence of large-scale musical form and context on recognition processes and emotional reactions during ongoing listening. The instantaneous resemblance to materials already heard up to that point in the piece demonstrates strong relations to the sectional structure of the music and suggests different memory dynamics for different kinds of musical structures. Emotional force ratings revealed the impact of computer-processed sounds and a diminution in emotional force with repetition of materials. Response profiles and global preferences across the two versions are discussed in terms of the multifaceted temporal shape of musical experience. C REATORS in the temporal arts-music, cinema, dance-often devote a great deal of energy and imagination to the formal aspects of their works. Given that such forms can extend over several minutes, several tens

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The Perceptual Structure of Thematic Materials in The Angel of Death

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Time Series Analysis as a Method to Examine Acoustical Influences on Real-time Perception of Music

Time Series Analysis as a Method to Examine Acoustical Influences on Real-time Perception of Music

On Listening to Atonal Variants of Two Piano Sonatas by Beethoven

Influences of Large-Scale Form on Continuous Ratings in Response to a Contemporary Piece in a Live Concert Setting

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