This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Perceived octaves are stretched, requiring frequency-dependent ratios that generally exceed 2:1. Small intervals seem to be compressed ...

In one experiment, White South African boys drew pictures in response to four musical intervals. In the second, the subjects were of both sexes and drawn from White, urban Black, and rural Black ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...

IN a series of communications to the Académie des Sciences (February 8 and 22, 1869, July 17,1871, and January 29, 1872), M. Cornu and I have shown that musical impressions are based upon several ...