Andrew J Milne

Biographic Data

ID5971574
NAMEAndrew J Milne
GIVEN NAMESAndrew J
FAMILY NAMEMilne
SIGNATUREMILNE A J
AFFILIATIONSWestern Sydney University
ORCID0000-0002-4688-8004
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Acoustical and Cultural Explanations for Contextual Tonal Stability

    Lillian M Hearne, Roger T Dean et al.ARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2026

    A defining aspect of tonality in Western music is that different musical pitches are perceived to have different stabilities: listeners expect unstable pitches to resolve to stable pitches such as the tonic, which is the most stable. To investigate possible explanations for these hierarchies of tonal stability, we conducted three experiments where participants rated the “fit” and “stability” of probe tones contextualized by a variety of musical s…

  • Commentary on Buechele, Cooke, & Berezovsky (2024)

    Open AccessAndrew J MilneARTICLEEmpirical Musicology Review2025

    I discuss Buechele, Cooke, and Berezovsky’s entropy-based model of scale structure and compare it with a different entropy-based model from Milne et al. (2017). I also present an augmented version of the 2017 model to provide an additional entropy-based explanation for preferred scale structures. Our models have similarities and differences in terms of their constructions and constraints, and their results differ somewhat in meaning. Despite this…

  • An Algorithm for Human Embodiment and Computational Realization of Familiar and Novel African/Clave

    Cameron Undy, Roger T Dean et al.ARTICLELeonardo2025

    This paper introduces an algorithm which aims to inspire music creation by generating familiar African/clave rhythm and novel transforms of them. The algorithm generalizes the musical practices described in Peñalosa’s pedagogy into an ‘embodied state’ indicative of African philosophies of call and response and grounding in ancestral wisdom. Based upon polyrhythmic alternations of hands and feet performing replicated ‘seed rhythms’, the rhythms pr…

  • Increasing music preference through guided self-framing

    Agnieszka Chmiel, Andrew J Milne et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2024

  • Evaluative conditioning of responses to unfamiliar chords by exposure to valenced images

    Open AccessEline A Smit, Andrew J Milne et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Music2022

    The extent to which emotional responses to musical elements are influenced by their past associations with specific emotional responses is largely unknown. To assess this possibility, the present study tested whether pairing positive, negative, or neutral chords from an unfamiliar musical system (a microtonal Bohlen–Pierce tuning) with positively or negatively valenced pictures would have an effect on subsequent liking ratings. The microtonal cho…

  • Making the Unfamiliar Familiar

    Open AccessEline A Smit, Andrew J Milne et al.ARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2022

    Affective responses to music have been shown to be influenced by the psychoacoustic features of the acoustic signal, learned associations between musical features and emotions, and familiarity with a musical system through exposure. The present article reports two experiments investigating whether short-term exposure has an effect on valence and consonance ratings of unfamiliar musical chords from the Bohlen-Pierce system, which are not based on …

  • The Need for Composite Models of Music Perception

    Eline A Smit, Andrew J MilneARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2021

    In the article “Consonance preferences within an unconventional tuning system,” Friedman and colleagues (2021) examine consonance ratings of a large range of dyads and triads from the Bohlen-Pierce chromatic just (BPCJ) scale. The study is designed as a replication of a recent paper by Bowling, Purves, and Gill (2018), which proposes that perception of consonance in dyads, triads, and tetrads can be predicted by their harmonic similarity to human…

  • On the Roles of Complexity and Symmetry in Cued Tapping of Well-formed Complex Rhythms

    Roger T Dean, David Bulger et al.ARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2021

    Production of relatively few rhythms with non-isochronous beats has been studied. So we assess reproduction of most well-formed looped rhythms comprising K=2-11 cues (a uniform piano tone, indicating where participants should tap) and N=3-13 isochronous pulses (a uniform cymbal). Each rhythm had two different cue interonset intervals. We expected that many of the rhythms would be difficult to tap, because of ambiguous non-isochronous beats and sy…

  • The perceptual relevance of balance, evenness, and entropy in musical rhythms

    Open AccessAndrew J Milne, Steffen A HerffARTICLECognition2020

  • Testing a spectral model of tonal affinity with microtonal melodies and inharmonic spectra

    Open AccessAndrew J Milne, Robin Laney et al.ARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2016

    Tonal affinity is the perceived goodness of fit of successive tones. It is important because a preference for certain intervals over others would likely influence preferences for, and prevalences of, “higher-order” musical structures such as scales and chord progressions. We hypothesize that two psychoacoustic (spectral) factors—harmonicity and spectral pitch similarity—have an impact on affinity. The harmonicity of a single tone is the extent to…