Reduced Memory Representations for Music EDWARDW . LARGE CAROLINE PALMER

Reduced Memory Representations for Music EDWARDW

We address the problem of musical variation (identification of different musical sequences as variations) and its implications for menial representations of music. According to reductionist theories, listeners judge the structural importance of musical events while forming mental representations. These iudgments moy result from the production of reduced memory representations that retain only t...

Reduced Memory Representations for Music

We address the problem of musical variation (identification of different musical sequences as variations) and its implications for mental representations of music. According to reductionist theories, listeners judge the structural importance of musical events while forming mental representations. These judgments may result from the production of reduced memory representations that retain only t...

Perceiving temporal regularity in music

Sequence Memory in Music Performance

How do people remember and produce complex sequences like music or speech? Music provides an example of excellent sequence memory under fast performance conditions; novices as well as skilled musicians can perform memorized music rapidly, without making mistakes. In addition, musical pitches repeat often within a melodic sequence in different orders, yet people do not confuse the sequential ord...

Journal of Memory and Language

Th MH4 1579 0149 assis Jusc men Raff A Palm Ave. trained and untrained listeners were familiarized with performances of short musical excerpts and later heard the familiarized performances as well as novel performances of the same music. All listeners identified correctly the familiarized performances. In Experiment 2, 10-month-old infants were familiarized with the same performances. In a head...