Twirling Triplets: The Qualia of Rotation and Musical Rhythm

While musicologists have long noted that triplet rhythms evoke sensations of rotation in listeners, no theory has been proposed to account for this apparent association. To investigate this phenomenon, 33 excerpts of “spinning, rotating, twirling, or swirling” music were crowd-sourced from an online...

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Main Authors: Niels Chr. Hansen, David Huron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Music & Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204318812243