Empirical Musicology Review  

Nicola Dibben,Renee Timmers

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Randolph B. Johnson,David Huron,Lauren Collister

This study investigated several factors presumed to influence the intelligibility of song lyrics. Twenty-seven participants listened to recordings of musical passages sung in English; each passage consisted of a brief musical phrase sung by a solo voice. ... see more

Jane Ginsborg

This document provides a brief commentary on Johnson, Huron and Collister’s (2013) article entitled “Music and lyrics interactions and their influence on recognition of sung words: An investigation of word frequency, rhyme, metric stress, vocal timbre and... see more

Edward Wickham

This commentary addresses some of the methodological difficulties inherent in studying intelligibility in sung text.  It provides observations which complement and critique some of the authors’ hypotheses and conclusions, and offers a caveat to further ‘b... see more

David Huron,Neesha Anderson,Daniel Shanahan

Forty-four Western-enculturated musicians completed two studies. The first group was asked to judge the relative sadness of forty-four familiar Western instruments. An independent group was asked to assess a number of acoustical properties for those same ... see more

Jonna K. Vuoskoski

Huron, Anderson, and Shanahan investigated the hypothesis that instruments that are deemed most capable of expressing sadness would also be judged better able to generate acoustic features similar to those used to convey sadness in speech. The judgments o... see more