IRCS Technical Reports Series
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
November 1994
Abstract
The psychological mechanism by which even musically untutored people can comprehend novel melodies resembles that by which they comprehend sentences of their native language. The paper identifies a syntax, a semantics, and a domain or "model". These elements are examined in application to the task of harmonic comprehension and analysis of unaccompanied melody, and a computational theory is argued for.
Keywords
music; computational analysis; key-analysis; harmony; consonance; grammar of music
COinS
Date Posted: 18 September 2006
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-94-20.