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PSY 397 Psychology of the Arts Knapp Study Guide 17 Psychology & Musical Phenomena Today we’ll take a look at some interesting musical phenomena and take a look at some of the psychological and neurological reasons they exist. 1. What octaves, frequencies, pitch heights, pitch chroma, and what do they have to do with one another? (http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/teaching/sounds_movies/pitch_helix.htm )Why do you think Wikipedia refers to octaves as “musical miracles?” (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave ) 2. What are harmonic frequencies?What do harmonic frequencies have to do with one instrument sounding different from another? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzeZbJceKZE you only need to watch the first half. The last half is cool, but I’m not planning on talk about it.) 3. What’s a tonotopic map and how would neurons in different regions of the tonotopic map respond to pitches with the same chroma but different height? (http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfitzake/Lectures/UndergradPharmacy/SensoryPhysiology/Auditi on/TonotopicMaps.html ) 4. Is there other evidence suggesting a neural representation of octave equivalence? (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22918980 ) 5. What is a Shepard tone and what does it have to do with tone chroma and height? (https://www.uwec.edu/walkerjs/PicturesOfMusic/Audio/Pitch_Perception_examples/She pard_tones.htm ) 6. Music played in a minor key is often perceived as sounding sad, why is that? (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100108/full/news.2010.3.html ) 7. Why do so many people dislike dissonance in music? (http://www.nature.com/news/whydissonant-music-strikes-the-wrong-chord-in-the-brain-1.11791 ) 8. What is the devil’s interval? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7zrS0Y-JMA ) 9. Why does the devil’s interval sound scary to so many? Is there anything besides the notes themselves that lend themselves to a sense of doom or evil? (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/plato-pop/201210/black-sabbath-and-the-secretscary-music ) PSY 397 Psychology of the Arts Knapp Study Guide 17 10. Shifting to something more positive, why do people experience Musical chills when listening to or getting ready to listen to music? (http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/media/news/item/?item_id=170538 ) 11. What is stream segregation and how can it help us to appreciate music? (Do the demonstrations! http://sites.sinauer.com/wolfe3e/chap10/audstreamsegF.htm ) 12. What is amusia? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRW0wZ9NOM ) 13. Is amusia related to difficulties with stream segregation or to other perceptual problems? (http://www.brams.umontreal.ca/plab/publications/article/68 ) This is not part of the study guide, but I stumbled on an amazing website that contains demonstrations of tons of auditory phenomenon that I’ve been looking for for years. You’re welcome to explore! http://www.feilding.net/sfuad/musi3012-01/demos/audio/ This study guide is dedicated to the memory of Ira Hirsch: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20100.aspx
