Parsing and memorizing tonal and modal melodies 1

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ID19276803
AuthorsYoko Oura (Niigata University), Giyoo Hatano (The Open University of Japan)
Year2004
Volume46
Issue4
Pages308-321
Publication date2004-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJapanese Psychological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-5368 • E-ISSN: 1468-5884
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-5584.2004.00263.x
OpenAlexW1978184002
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

The role that style‐specific (form‐ and syntactic rules‐based) parsing strategies play in melodic memory was investigated. Two melodies of different styles, a tonal melody in the style of Western tonal music and a modal (Japanese traditional) melody, were used as materials. The results showed that: (i) musically experienced students who had years of experience playing pieces of Western tonal piano music could parse the tonal melody promptly and appropriately, but could not achieve stable parsing for the modal melody; (ii) inexperienced students took a little longer to segment the tonal melody, but could memorize the tonal melody easily when parsing preceded the memorizing task; however, (iii) the inexperienced students could not parse the modal melody stably, and their recall performance was not enhanced even when their parsing was led to be stable and appropriate by demonstrating successive phrases in the melody. These results indicate that stable parsing is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for prompt melodic memory

Art · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Literature · Melody · Memorization · Modal · Musical · Natural language processing · Parsing · Speech recognition · Style (visual arts) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Diverse Music Education Insights · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development

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