Guest lecture
Tuesday 19 November 2013
at 5.30 pm
SR 15.17 (Resowi F1)
All welcome!
Melodic expectation can be divided into two subsystems: bottom-up, which is learned and schema-based, and top-down, which is innate and operates on Gestalt principles. If principles of melodic expectation are at least partly acquired, it should be possible to manipulate them – to condition listeners to alter their expectations. Ex-periment 1 manipulates listeners’ expectation of pitch proximity by conditioning them to large melodic leaps. Experiment 2 alters expectations for a dominance of rising leaps and falling steps by exposing listeners to me-lodies made up of rising steps and falling leaps. Experiment 3 investigates the expectation for small intervals to be followed by an interval in the same direction.
Our guest:
Zuzana Cenkerova is a PhD student at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She holds master de-grees in musicology and business mathematics, and is currently attending a course in general psychology. She spent a part of her PhD studies working with Richard Parncutt in Graz and recently presented her findings at the Music & Emotions Conference in Jyväskyllä, Finland.
