Probe tone paradigm reveals less differentiated tonal hierarchies in rock music

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dc.contributor.authorVuvan, Dominique T.
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Bryn
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-15T22:48:50Z
dc.date.available2021-06-15T22:48:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionAuthor original manuscript (pre-print)en_US
dc.description.abstractKrumhansl and Kessler’s (1982) pioneering experiments on tonal hierarchies in Western music have long been considered the gold standard for researchers interested in the mental representation of musical pitch structure. The current experiment used the probe tone technique to investigate the tonal hierarchy in classical and rock music. As predicted, the observed profiles for these two styles were structurally similar, reflecting a shared underlying Western tonal structure. Most interestingly, however, the rock profile was significantly less differentiated than the classical profile, reflecting theoretical work that describes pitch organization in rock music as more permissive and less hierarchical than in classical music. This line of research contradicts the idea that music from the common-practice era is representative of all Western musics, and challenges music cognition researchers to explore style-appropriate stimuli and models of pitch structure for their experiments.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVuvan, D. T., & Hughes, B. (2021). Probe tone paradigm reveals less differentiated tonal hierarchy in rock music. Music perception, 38(5), 425-434. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2021.38.5.425en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5907
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of California Pressen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Musicen_US
dc.publisher.facultyFine Artsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionSkidmore Collegeen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2021.38.5.425en_US
dc.subjectTonal hierarchyen_US
dc.subjectProbe tone
dc.subjectPitch
dc.subjectStyle
dc.subjectClassical music
dc.subject.lcshTonality
dc.subject.lcshStyle, Musical
dc.subject.lcshPopular music
dc.subject.lcshRock music
dc.subject.lcshMusical pitch
dc.subject.lcshPerception
dc.titleProbe tone paradigm reveals less differentiated tonal hierarchies in rock musicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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