13 articles in this issue
Daniel Müllensiefen,Daniel Shanahan
No abstract available.
Clément Canonne
Is there something peculiar in our appreciation of improvised music? How does knowing that the music we are listening to is improvised affect our experience? As a first step in answering these questions, I have conducted an experiment in which an audio re... see more
Manuel Anglada-Tort
The target study explores whether evaluations of the same piece of music differ under two distinct listening conditions: listening to a piece described either as an improvisation or as a preexisting composition. Participants (N = 16) in the two conditions... see more
Lindsay Warrenburg,David Huron
Research suggests that person-based dispositional factors, as well as properties of the music, influence a person's musical taste. In this study, we examined the possibility that the interaction between the stressfulness of the music and a listener's capa... see more
Alexsandra Kovacevich,David Huron
In recent years, a widely popular phenomenon has emerged as exemplified in thousands of videos available on the Internet. Referred to using the impressive sounding term "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response" (abbreviated ASMR), followers claim that ASMR v... see more
Nicolas Ruth
Caitlyn Trevor,David Huron
Two studies are reported testing the conjecture that certain musical sounds or musical works may emulate the punctuated sound (ha-ha-ha) of human laughter. In the first study, 25 participants were instructed to adjust the tempo and duty cycle (articulatio... see more
Christopher S. Lee
In this commentary, several problematic aspects of Trevor and Huron's study are discussed and suggestions made for improving the experimental design.
Jörg Mühlhans
This commentary discusses and comments on the study by Trevor and Huron on the acoustical similarities between human laughter and staccato articulation in music.
Court B Cutting
Microtonal evaluation of blue notes in the early blues scale by empirical pitch measurement and statistical characterization has not yet been performed in existing research. To address this, fifteen recorded classic blues performances by acknowledged earl... see more
Tilo Hähnel
This commentary discusses the target paper Microtonal Analysis of "Blue Notes" and the Blues Scale by Court B. Cutting. Overall, the paper is an interesting and very valuable attempt to shed light on the intonation practice of blue notes in traditional bl... see more
Martin Pfleiderer
This commentary relates to the target paper by Cutting on the microtonal analysis of pitches in the vocal lines of fifteen blues recordings. After relating Cutting's study to Jeff Todd Titon's Early Downhome Blues, some of its merits and shortcomings are ... see more
Maria Henriquez,Sarah Hashemian