Scientific Papers
Loui, Psyche, David L. Wessel, and Carla L. Hudson Kam. "Humans Rapidly Learn Grammatical Structure in a New Musical Scale." Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 27.5 (2010): 377-88. JSTOR. Web. 15 Dec. 2014. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2010.27.5.377>.
A small study that describes how people adapt to new paradigms of the Bohlen-Pierce scale. I found it surprising that after only minutes of listening, subjects could recognize patterns more easily. This is important to my research because it shows that even subjects trained in one musical paradigm can use the structure of another to create music.
Kopiez, Reinhard. "Intonation of Harmonic Intervals: Adaptability of Expert Musicians to Equal Temperament and Just Intonation." Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20.4 (2003): 383-410. JSTOR. Web. 15 Dec. 2014. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2003.20.4.383>
I found while reading this that even expert musicians subconsciously use the framework of equal temperament intonation, even when playing with justly tempered music; exposure to equal-tempered instrumentation can sometimes override direct perception of consonance in justly-tuned intervals and skew one’s perceptions of what is in tune.
Messina, Dylan. "Where Will It End?" Student Research Awards. Oberlin College Library, 2009. Web. 31 May 2015. <http://www.oberlin.edu/library/friends/research.awards/messina.pdf>.
Muller, Nora-Louise. "A Proposal for Bohlen-Pierce Notation." Nora-Louise Muller. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2015. <http://www.noralouisemuller.de/Muller_BP-Notation.pdf>.
Skinner, Myles L. "Toward a Quarter-Tone Syntax: Selected Analyses of Works by Blackwood, Hába, Ives, and Wyschnegradsky." Quarter Tones. Myles L. Skinner, n.d. Web. 31 May 2015. <http://www.tierceron.com/diss/intro/intro.pdf>.
A small study that describes how people adapt to new paradigms of the Bohlen-Pierce scale. I found it surprising that after only minutes of listening, subjects could recognize patterns more easily. This is important to my research because it shows that even subjects trained in one musical paradigm can use the structure of another to create music.
Kopiez, Reinhard. "Intonation of Harmonic Intervals: Adaptability of Expert Musicians to Equal Temperament and Just Intonation." Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20.4 (2003): 383-410. JSTOR. Web. 15 Dec. 2014. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2003.20.4.383>
I found while reading this that even expert musicians subconsciously use the framework of equal temperament intonation, even when playing with justly tempered music; exposure to equal-tempered instrumentation can sometimes override direct perception of consonance in justly-tuned intervals and skew one’s perceptions of what is in tune.
Messina, Dylan. "Where Will It End?" Student Research Awards. Oberlin College Library, 2009. Web. 31 May 2015. <http://www.oberlin.edu/library/friends/research.awards/messina.pdf>.
Muller, Nora-Louise. "A Proposal for Bohlen-Pierce Notation." Nora-Louise Muller. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2015. <http://www.noralouisemuller.de/Muller_BP-Notation.pdf>.
Skinner, Myles L. "Toward a Quarter-Tone Syntax: Selected Analyses of Works by Blackwood, Hába, Ives, and Wyschnegradsky." Quarter Tones. Myles L. Skinner, n.d. Web. 31 May 2015. <http://www.tierceron.com/diss/intro/intro.pdf>.