Se estudia una urna cineraria romana, con iconogragía de tritones, e inscripción funeraria inédita L. Aelvius Volusianus.

Tritones sounding over subdominant harmony, either as suspensions, accented passing tones, or incomplete neighbors, constitute a class of sonorities regularly heard in film and television music. I collectively refer to these phenomena “subdominant tritones” (SdTT), theorize link between the SdTT emotions it engenders. The article presents close visual/musical analysis selected SdTT-tinged passa...

From novice to expert, almost every musician must recognize musical intervals, the perceived pitch difference between two notes, but there have not been many empirical attempts to discover an optimal teaching technique. The current study created a method for teaching identification of consonant and dissonant tone pairs. At posttest, participants increased their ability to discern tritones from ...

The courtship behaviour of pygmy newts, Triturus pygmaeus, consists of three phases: orientation, static display (often not clearly differentiated from each other) and spermatophore transfer. The repertoire of male sexual behaviour consists of nine different movements. Exhibition, an alert posture in which the male advances with small jumps around the female, is the most frequent behaviour. The...

Previous neuroimaging studies have shown an increased sensory cortical response (i.e., heightened weight on sensory evidence) under higher levels of predictive uncertainty. The signal enhancement theory proposes that attention improves the quality of the stimulus representation, and therefore reduces uncertainty by increasing the gain of the sensory signal. The present study employed functional...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated functional and structural temporal lobe abnormalities located close to the auditory cortical regions in schizophrenia. The goal of this study was to determine whether functional abnormalities exist in the cortical processing of musical sound in schizophrenia. METHODS Twelve schizophrenic patients and twelve age- and sex-matched healthy controls we...

Long-Term Representations of Pitch Structure vs. Short-Term Effects of the Perceptually Immediate Context One issue raised by Butler (1989; see also Butler 1988b) is whether experiments such as these which demonstrate hierarchical differentiation of This content downloaded from 128.84.127.82 on Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:52:11 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 312 Carol L. Krumhansl tone...

as rational human beings, we always think and look back upon our predecessors and forefathers, how they have lived and what they have accomplished, in order to learn from their experiences and broaden our horizons. there is no doubt that olivier messiaen is one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, because of his unique musical approach, language and style. thus, western modern...

Landscapes can be described by two essential features: the composition and spatial arrangement of patches. We considered the roles of these basic landscape descriptors by examining how the occurrence of nine amphibian species in breeding ponds was associated with the area of forested habitat and the proximity of ponds to forested habitat. We used visual and call surveys to compare the compositi...

In this article, I consider two ways to model distance (or inverse similarity) between chord types, one based on voice leading and the other on shared interval content. My goal is to provide a contrapuntal reinterpretation of Ian Quinn’s work, which uses the Fourier transform to quantify similarity of interval content. The first section of the article shows how to find the minimal voice leading...