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Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech.

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2010-01
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Bowling, Daniel L
Gill, Kamraan
Choi, Jonathan D
Prinz, Joseph
Purves, Dale
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The affective impact of music arises from a variety of factors, including intensity, tempo, rhythm, and tonal relationships. The emotional coloring evoked by intensity, tempo, and rhythm appears to arise from association with the characteristics of human behavior in the corresponding condition; however, how and why particular tonal relationships in music convey distinct emotional effects are not clear. The hypothesis examined here is that major and minor tone collections elicit different affective reactions because their spectra are similar to the spectra of voiced speech uttered in different emotional states. To evaluate this possibility the spectra of the intervals that distinguish major and minor music were compared to the spectra of voiced segments in excited and subdued speech using fundamental frequency and frequency ratios as measures. Consistent with the hypothesis, the spectra of major intervals are more similar to spectra found in excited speech, whereas the spectra of particular minor intervals are more similar to the spectra of subdued speech. These results suggest that the characteristic affective impact of major and minor tone collections arises from associations routinely made between particular musical intervals and voiced speech.
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Journal article
Subject
Acoustic Stimulation
Acoustics
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Databases as Topic
Emotions
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Music
Psychoacoustics
Sound Spectrography
Speech
Speech Acoustics
Young Adult
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4233
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10.1121/1.3268504
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Bowling, Daniel L; Gill, Kamraan; Choi, Jonathan D; Prinz, Joseph; & Purves, Dale (2010). Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech. J Acoust Soc Am, 127(1). pp. 491-503. 10.1121/1.3268504. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4233.
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The Purves Laboratory is continuing to study visual perception and its neurobiological underpinnings. Ongoing investigations include understanding the perception of brightness, color, orientation, motion, and depth. The unifying theme of these several projects is the hypothesis that visual percepts are generated according to a wholly empirical strategy. The strategy represents in perception the empirical significance of the stimulus rather than its properties. This theory of vision and its
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