Interval Size and Affect: An Ethnomusicological Perspective

This commentary addresses Huron and Davis's question of whether "The Harmonic Minor Provides an Optimum Way of Reducing Average Melodic Interval Size, Consistent with Sad Affect Cues" within any non-Western musical cultures. The harmonic minor scale and other semitone-heavy scales, su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarha Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2013-08-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
Subjects:
sad
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v7i3-4.3747