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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-01-01
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Series: | Music & Science |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204318812243 |