The Harmonic Minor Scale Provides an Optimum Way of Reducing Average Melodic Interval Size, Consistent with Sad Affect Cues
Small pitch movement is known to characterize sadness in speech prosody. Small melodic interval sizes have also been observed in nominally sad music—at least in the case of Western music. Starting with melodies in the major mode, a study is reported which examines the effect of different scale modif...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2013-08-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v7i3-4.3732 |