Exam 13: Music Perception

Janna writes down a rhythmically organized sequence of notes to express a feeling that she has.Janna has created a ______.

Synesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one modality consistently triggers a response in another modality.

Adrian has been a concert violinist for decades.Now, he finds that all those years of performing loudly have impaired his hearing ability in the range played by his violin.What can Adrian do to continue performing?

How long the fundamental frequency and harmonic remain at their peak loudness until they start to disappear is known as ______ and is a feature of ______.

The flute and the violin are associated with ______, while the tuba and the bassoon are associated with ______.

Hyde, Peretz, and Zatorre (2008) used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the function of the right and left auditory cortical regions in frequency processing of melodic sequences.They found that ______.

Which of the following are considered musical illusions?

A person is presented with a tone at 400 Hz and a tone at 420 Hz, and then is presented with one at 500 Hz and one at 1000 Hz.Which pair will sound more similar and why?

Describe the relationship between pitch and frequency.

Archaeological evidence dates the earliest flutes to ______.

DeWitt and Samuel (1990) conducted an experiment in which participants heard an implied but missing note, similar to the perceptual restoration effect.They found that ______.

Anastasia has been playing the piano since she was a young child.Now, she would like to learn to play Indian music.Anastasia will soon find that ______.

Instead of the ______ scale used in Western music (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and C), Chinese music uses only a five-note ______ scale.

Peretz and her colleagues were concerned that an initial deficit in pitch perception may spiral in people with congenital amusia.They found that ______.

In major scales, every step is one semitone.

Tempo refers to ______.

Briefly explain the relationship between different types of Western music, such as reggae, grunge, and country.

Dissonance is the perception of pleasantness or harmony when two or more notes are played; that is, the notes fit with each other.

The Shepard tone illusion occurs when people misperceive pure tones as chords.

In music, chroma refers to the ______.