Interval Size and Phrase Position: A Comparison between German and Chinese Folksongs

It is well known that the pitch of the voice tends to decline over the course of a spoken utterance. Ladd (2008) showed that there is also a tendency for the pitch range of spoken utterances to shrink as the pitch of the voice declines. Motivated by this work, two studies are reported that test for...

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Main Authors: Daniel Shanahan, David Huron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2012-09-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/52948