12 articles in this issue
Daniel Shanahan,Daniel Müllensiefen
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Daniel Shanahan
On the occasion of David Huron's retirement, EMR Editor, Daniel Shanahan, recently interviewed him regarding the founding of the journal, the growth of empirical musicology, digital corpus studies, the Humdrum Toolkit, and related topics. The first of two... see more
Yke Schotanus
A growing body of evidence indicates that music can support the processing of language. Some of its beneficial effects may even occur after one exposure. Accompaniment can also have an impact: in a-cappella singing, silences and out-of-key notes may confu... see more
Christopher S. Lee
In this commentary, a number of problematic aspects of the studies presented in the target article are discussed. Suggestions have been made for further analyses of some of the data and for additional experimental investigations.
Yvonne Teo
Despite the large body of research that has examined tonal and atonal harmonies to our perception of tension, there is no work that describes or explores the perception of post-tonal chords, but more specifically, chords that contain both tonal and post-t... see more
Caitlyn Trevor
This commentary discusses the motivation, methods, and results of Teo's (2020) article on using Aggregate Voice-Leading (AVL) motion to predict perceived harmonic tension within post-tonal, neoclassical repertoire. The successes of the study as well as po... see more
Paul T. von Hippel,David Huron
We show that the twelve-tone rows of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern are "anti-tonal"—that is, structured to avoid or undermine listener's tonal schemata. Compared to randomly generated rows, segments from Schoenberg's and Webern's rows have significan... see more
Jason Yust
This commentary addresses von Hippel and Huron's (2020) work on "tonal and anti-tonal" structures in twelve-tone music and offers a possible extension making use of discrete Fourier transforms.
Niels Chr. Hansen
This commentary provides two methodological expansions of von Hippel and Huron's (2020) empirical report on (anti-)tonality in twelve-tone rows by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg. First, motivated by the theoretical importance of equality ... see more
Imre Lahdelma,Tuomas Eerola
The authors respond to the commentary by Michael Spitzer which appeared in Vol. 14, No. 1-2 of Empirical Musicology Review. The response 1) points out the problem with equating nostalgia and tension in the perception of single chords, 2) makes a case... see more
In the article "Emotion Painting: Lyric, affect, and musical relationships in a large lead-sheet corpus", Sun and Cuthbert (2017) explored the correlations between affect-carrying lyrics and musical features such as beat strength, pitch height, consonance... see more
Miriam Piilonen