Journal article
INFANTS’ PERCEPTION OF GOOD AND BAD MELODIES
Abstract
Infants 7 to 10 months of age were exposed to repetitions of one of three melodies in transposition, the three melodies exhibiting different degrees of conformance to Western music structure. One was a good Western melody, consisting of notes from the diatonic scale; another was a bad Western melody with notes drawn from the chromatic scale but not from any single diatonic scale; and the third was a bad non-Western melody with notes not drawn …
Authors
Trehub SE; Thorpe LA; Trainor LJ
Journal
Psychomusicology Music Mind and Brain, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5–19
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Publication Date
January 1, 1990
DOI
10.1037/h0094162
ISSN
0275-3987