Cross-cultural music cognition:: cognitive methodology applied to North Sami yolks
Cross-cultural music cognition:: cognitive methodology applied to North Sami yolks
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DOI:
10.1016/s0010-0277(00)00068-8
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发表时间:
2000-07-14
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影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Louhivuori, J
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作者:
Krumhansl, CL;Toivanen, P;Louhivuori, J
This article is a study of melodic expectancy in North Sami yolks, a style of music quite distinct from Western tonal music. Three different approaches were taken. The first approach was a statistical style analysis of tones in a representative corpus of 18 yolks. The analysis determined the relative frequencies of tone onsets and two- and three-tone transitions. It also identified style characteristics, such as pentatonic orientation, the presence of two reference pitches, the frequency of large consonant intervals, and a relatively large set of possible melodic continuations. The second approach was a behavioral experiment in which listeners made judgments about melodic continuations. Three groups of listeners participated. One group was from the Sami culture, the second group consisted of Finnish music students who had learned some yolks, and the third group consisted of Western musicians unfamiliar with yolks. Expertise was associated with stronger veridical expectations (for the correct next tone) than schematic expectations (based on general style characteristics). Familiarity with the particular yolks was found to compensate for lack of experience with the musical culture. The third approach simulated melodic expectancy with neural network models of the self-organizing map (SOM) type (Kohonen, T. (1997). Self-organizing maps (2nd ed.). Berlin: Springer). One model was trained on the excerpts of yolks used in the behavioral experiment including the correct continuation tone, while another was trained with a set of Finnish folk songs and Lutheran hymns. The convergence of the three approaches showed that both listeners and the SOM model are influenced by the statistical distributions of tones and tone sequences. The listeners and SOM models also provided evidence supporting a core set of psychological principles underlying melody formation whose relative weights appear to differ across musical styles. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.