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INFANTS’ PERCEPTION OF GOOD AND BAD MELODIES
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