Relative salience of chord-type and chord-voicing changes: A two-oddball paradigm

Our research project investigated the effect of background and stimuli factors on relative salience chord-type chord-voicing changes. Earlier studies have shown that surface features tend to be easier perceive than deeper musical training attenuates this general tendency. For further studying how deeper-level surface-level are perceived, we used a two-oddball paradigm. Each item consisted succession five same-root chords: one oddball (deeper feature), voicing (surface three standards. Participants chose chord sounded most different them. All pairings formed major, minor, dominant seventh, major minor seventh chords were tested. Chord-type chosen equally often, together forming majority responses. Musical conceptual knowledge affected responses, but not voicing-oddball However, oddballs regardless training. responses easiest for pairs consisting major-based minor-based involving two pitch-class results suggest about is only factor influencing changes over