Carol L Krumhansl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1192578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol L Krumhansl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol L |
| FAMILY NAME | Krumhansl |
| SIGNATURE | KRUMHANSL C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cross-modal interactions in the perception of musical performance
The Cognition of Tonality - as We Know it Today
This article begins with a brief summary of how tonality is defined in musicology and some of the tensions that exist between different theoretical traditions. Then, the basic cognitive studies examining the elements of tonality are reviewed as background to some of the more recent literature. The introduction considers the relationship between some of these results and the acoustics of musical tones. The next section reviews studies that take a …
Rhythm and pitch in music cognition
Rhythm and pitch are the 2 primary dimensions of music. They are interesting psychologically because simple, well-defined units combine to form highly complex and varied patterns. This article brings together the major developments in research on how these dimensions are perceived and remembered, beginning with psychophysical results on time and pitch perception. Progressively larger units are considered, moving from basic psychological categorie…
An exploratory study of musical emotions and psychophysiology.
A basic issue about musical emotions concerns whether music elicits emotional responses in listeners (the 'emotivist' position) or simply expresses emotions that listeners recognize in the music (the 'cognitivist' position). To address this, psychophysiological measures were recorded while listners heard two excerpts chosen to represent each of three emotions: sad, fear, and happy. The measures covered a fairly wide spectrum of cardiac, vascular,…
Can Dance Reflect the Structural and Expressive Qualities of Music? A Perceptual Experiment on Balanchine's Choreography of Mozart's Divertimento No. 15
A perceptual experiment investigated the structural and expressive mappings between music and dance. The Stimulus materials were based on the Minuetto from W. A. Mozart's Divertimento No. 15 choreographed by George Balanchine. Participants were assigned to one of three conditions: Music Only, Dance Only, and Both Music and Dance. They performed four on-line tasks: indicating the occurrence of section ends and new ideas, and judging the amount of …
Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch
Infants’ Perception of Phrase Structure in Music
A visual preference procedure was used to examine 6- and 41/2-monthold infants’ sensitivity to phrase structure in music. Sections of Mozart minuets were divided into segments that either did or did not correspond to the phrase structure of the music. Infants in both age groups listened significantly longer to the appropriately segmented versions. Their behavior accorded well with judgments of the same materials made by adults, suggesting that pr…
Issues in theoretical and experimental approaches to research on listening and comprehension
Music has been studied recently from the perspective of a number of disciplines, including experimental psychology, artificial intelligence and neuroscience. These disciplines compliment more traditional approaches to understanding music, such as music theory, music analysis, and musicology. Despite their common interest in music, the various disciplines have distinctive theoretical commitments and methodologies. This paper attempts to characteri…
Tracing the dynamic changes in perceived tonal organization in a spatial representation of musical keys.
The cognitive representation of harmonic and tonal structure in Western music is investigated using a tone-profile technique. In this method listeners rate how well single tones (any one of the 12 tones of the chromatic scale) follow a musical element such as a scale, chord, or cadence. Very stable rating profiles reflecting the tonal hierarchies in major and minor keys are obtained, which, when intercorrelated and analyzed using multidimensional…
Rhythm and pitch in music cognition
Rhythm and pitch are the 2 primary dimensions of music. They are interesting psychologically because simple, well-defined units combine to form highly complex and varied patterns. This article brings together the major developments in research on how these dimensions are perceived and remembered, beginning with psychophysical results on time and pitch perception. Progressively larger units are considered, moving from basic psychological categorie…
Tracing the dynamic changes in perceived tonal organization in a spatial representation of musical keys.
The cognitive representation of harmonic and tonal structure in Western music is investigated using a tone-profile technique. In this method listeners rate how well single tones (any one of the 12 tones of the chromatic scale) follow a musical element such as a scale, chord, or cadence. Very stable rating profiles reflecting the tonal hierarchies in major and minor keys are obtained, which, when intercorrelated and analyzed using multidimensional…
Issues in theoretical and experimental approaches to research on listening and comprehension
Music has been studied recently from the perspective of a number of disciplines, including experimental psychology, artificial intelligence and neuroscience. These disciplines compliment more traditional approaches to understanding music, such as music theory, music analysis, and musicology. Despite their common interest in music, the various disciplines have distinctive theoretical commitments and methodologies. This paper attempts to characteri…
Infants’ Perception of Phrase Structure in Music
A visual preference procedure was used to examine 6- and 41/2-monthold infants’ sensitivity to phrase structure in music. Sections of Mozart minuets were divided into segments that either did or did not correspond to the phrase structure of the music. Infants in both age groups listened significantly longer to the appropriately segmented versions. Their behavior accorded well with judgments of the same materials made by adults, suggesting that pr…
Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch
An exploratory study of musical emotions and psychophysiology.
A basic issue about musical emotions concerns whether music elicits emotional responses in listeners (the 'emotivist' position) or simply expresses emotions that listeners recognize in the music (the 'cognitivist' position). To address this, psychophysiological measures were recorded while listners heard two excerpts chosen to represent each of three emotions: sad, fear, and happy. The measures covered a fairly wide spectrum of cardiac, vascular,…
Can Dance Reflect the Structural and Expressive Qualities of Music? A Perceptual Experiment on Balanchine's Choreography of Mozart's Divertimento No. 15
A perceptual experiment investigated the structural and expressive mappings between music and dance. The Stimulus materials were based on the Minuetto from W. A. Mozart's Divertimento No. 15 choreographed by George Balanchine. Participants were assigned to one of three conditions: Music Only, Dance Only, and Both Music and Dance. They performed four on-line tasks: indicating the occurrence of section ends and new ideas, and judging the amount of …
Rhythm and pitch in music cognition
Rhythm and pitch are the 2 primary dimensions of music. They are interesting psychologically because simple, well-defined units combine to form highly complex and varied patterns. This article brings together the major developments in research on how these dimensions are perceived and remembered, beginning with psychophysical results on time and pitch perception. Progressively larger units are considered, moving from basic psychological categorie…
The Cognition of Tonality - as We Know it Today
This article begins with a brief summary of how tonality is defined in musicology and some of the tensions that exist between different theoretical traditions. Then, the basic cognitive studies examining the elements of tonality are reviewed as background to some of the more recent literature. The introduction considers the relationship between some of these results and the acoustics of musical tones. The next section reviews studies that take a …
Cross-modal interactions in the perception of musical performance
Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Musical (9 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Music and Audio Processing (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Communication (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (4 works)