Tonality and Affective Experience: What the Probe Tone Method Reveals

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, Zohar Eitan, European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.

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Abstract

Musicians, music theorists, and music psychologists have long maintained that the tonal hierarchy is an important foundation for the affective experience of Western music. Tonal relationships are believed to engender expectancy, tension and surprise, and thus partake in diverse ways in music expression and meanings. The probe-tone technique (Krumhansl, 1990) has revealed the psychological reality of
tonal hierarchy for listeners, including those with no musical training.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICMPC-ESCOM 2012 joint conference : Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationThessaloniki/Greece, 23-28 July 2012.
EditorsE. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsougras, P. Mavromatis, K. Pastiadis
Place of PublicationThessaloniki
PublisherSchool of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
ISBN (Print)9609984517, 9789609984515
StatePublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Tonality
  • Tension
  • Aesthetics
  • Emotion
  • Musical training

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