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The Musical Faces of South Korea’s East Coast Shaman Tradition: An Exploration into Personal Style Formation and Expression (2017)
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Mills, S. R., & Park, S. (2017). The Musical Faces of South Korea’s East Coast Shaman Tradition: An Exploration into Personal Style Formation and Expression. Ethnomusicology Forum, 26(1), 69-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2017.1305283

The hereditary shamans of South Korea’s East Coast region foster a style of ritual that is well noted for its complex, often highly virtuosic, percussion music. Looking beyond the shared norms that hold this tradition together, this study valorises t... Read More about The Musical Faces of South Korea’s East Coast Shaman Tradition: An Exploration into Personal Style Formation and Expression.

The Pleasure Evoked by Sad Music Is Mediated by Feelings of Being Moved (2017)
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Vuoskoski, J., & Eerola, T. (2017). The Pleasure Evoked by Sad Music Is Mediated by Feelings of Being Moved. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 439. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00439

Why do we enjoy listening to music that makes us sad? This question has puzzled music psychologists for decades, but the paradox of “pleasurable sadness” remains to be solved. Recent findings from a study investigating the enjoyment of sad films sugg... Read More about The Pleasure Evoked by Sad Music Is Mediated by Feelings of Being Moved.

A development study of latent absolute pitch memory. (2017)
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Jakubowski, K., Mullensiefen, D., & Stewart, L. (2017). A development study of latent absolute pitch memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(3), 434-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1131726

The ability to recall the absolute pitch level of familiar music (latent absolute pitch memory) is widespread in adults, in contrast to the rare ability to label single pitches without a reference tone (overt absolute pitch memory). The present resea... Read More about A development study of latent absolute pitch memory..

Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention (2017)
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Putkinen, V., Makkonen, T., & Eerola, T. (2017). Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(7), 1159-1168. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx038

Previous studies indicate that positive mood broadens the scope of visual attention, which can manifest as heightened distractibility. We used event-related potentials (ERP) to investigate whether music-induced positive mood has comparable effects on... Read More about Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention.

Music perception in historical audiences: Towards predictive models of music perception in historical audiences (2017)
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Pearce, M., & Eerola, T. (2017). Music perception in historical audiences: Towards predictive models of music perception in historical audiences. Disiplinlerarası müzik araştırmaları dergisi, 8(1-2), 91-120. https://doi.org/10.4407/jims.2016.12.004

Background in Historical Musicology. In addition to making inferences about historical performance practice, it is interesting to ask questions about the experience of historical listeners. In particular, how might their perception vary from that of... Read More about Music perception in historical audiences: Towards predictive models of music perception in historical audiences.

Context, Form and Style in Sterndale Bennett's Piano Concertos (2016)
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Dibble, J. (2016). Context, Form and Style in Sterndale Bennett's Piano Concertos. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 13(2), 195-219. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409816000616

A concert pianist in his own right and a prodigious youth, Sterndale Bennett composed his five complete piano concertos at the beginning of his career. Although Mozart is often cited as a major influence on Bennett’s musical style, and Bennett was a... Read More about Context, Form and Style in Sterndale Bennett's Piano Concertos.

Anthropology, Theology, and the Simplicity of Benedict XVI's Chant (2016)
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Zon, B. (2016). Anthropology, Theology, and the Simplicity of Benedict XVI's Chant. Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 19(1), 15-40. https://doi.org/10.1353/log.2016.0004

FOR A LATE-VICTORIAN THEOLOGIAN like John Harrington Edwards music is by its very nature sacred. Writing in God and Music (1903) he claims that “music … speaks of God, from God, for God, and to God.” Other Victorians considered music to be neither sa... Read More about Anthropology, Theology, and the Simplicity of Benedict XVI's Chant.

Towards Machine Musicians Who Have Listened to More Music Than Us: Audio Database-led Algorithmic Criticism for Automatic Composition and Live Concert Systems (2016)
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Collins, N. (2016). Towards Machine Musicians Who Have Listened to More Music Than Us: Audio Database-led Algorithmic Criticism for Automatic Composition and Live Concert Systems. Computers in entertainment, 14(3), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1145/2967510

Databases of audio can form the basis for new algorithmic critic systems, applying techniques from the growing field of music information retrieval to meta-creation in algorithmic composition and interactive music systems. In this article, case studi... Read More about Towards Machine Musicians Who Have Listened to More Music Than Us: Audio Database-led Algorithmic Criticism for Automatic Composition and Live Concert Systems.

Hamilton Harty's Ode to a Nightingale: A Confluence of Wagner and Elgar (2016)
Journal Article
Dibble, J. (2016). Hamilton Harty's Ode to a Nightingale: A Confluence of Wagner and Elgar. Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, 11(2015-16), 57-81

Hamilton Harty, a figure readily associated with an assimilation of Irish culture, in 1907 composed a setting of Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale specially for his wife, the soprano Agnes Nicholls. Nicholls had become a pre-eminent Wagnerian soprano in L... Read More about Hamilton Harty's Ode to a Nightingale: A Confluence of Wagner and Elgar.

Being Moved by Unfamiliar Sad Music Is Associated with High Empathy (2016)
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Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., & Kautiainen, H. (2016). Being Moved by Unfamiliar Sad Music Is Associated with High Empathy. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1176. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01176

The paradox of enjoying listening to music that evokes sadness is yet to be fully understood. Unlike prior studies that have explored potential explanations related to lyrics, memories, and mood regulation, we investigated the types of emotions induc... Read More about Being Moved by Unfamiliar Sad Music Is Associated with High Empathy.

A funny thing happened on the way to the formula: Algorithmic composition for musical theatre (2016)
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Collins, N. (2016). A funny thing happened on the way to the formula: Algorithmic composition for musical theatre. Computer Music Journal, 40(3), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1162/comj_a_00373

Algorithmic composition methods must prove themselves within real-world musical contexts to more firmly solidify their adoption in musical practice. The present project is an automatic composing program trained on a corpus of songs from musical theat... Read More about A funny thing happened on the way to the formula: Algorithmic composition for musical theatre.

Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity (2016)
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Eerola, T. (2016). Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity. Empirical Musicology Review, 11(1), 2-17. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i1.4836

The present study assesses two types of models for melodic complexity: one based on expectancy violations and the other one related to an information-theoretic account of redundancy in music. Seven different datasets spanning artificial sequences, fo... Read More about Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity.

Mild dissonance preferred over consonance in single chord perception (2016)
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Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2016). Mild dissonance preferred over consonance in single chord perception. i-Perception, 7(3), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516655812

Previous research on harmony perception has mainly been concerned with horizontal aspects of harmony, turning less attention to how listeners perceive psychoacoustic qualities and emotions in single isolated chords. A recent study found mild dissonan... Read More about Mild dissonance preferred over consonance in single chord perception.

Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences (2016)
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Eerola, T., & Peltola, H. (2016). Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences. PLoS ONE, 11(6), Article e0157444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157444

Reactions to memorable experiences of sad music were studied by means of a survey administered to a convenience (N = 1577), representative (N = 445), and quota sample (N = 414). The survey explored the reasons, mechanisms, and emotions of such experi... Read More about Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences.