EEG correlates of song prosody: A new look at the relationship between linguistic and musical rhythm

Song composers incorporate linguistic prosody into their music when setting words to melody, a process called textsetting. Composers tend to align the expected stress of the lyrics with strong metrical positions in the music. The present study was designed to explore the idea that temporal alignment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reyna L Gordon, Cyrille L. Magne, Edward W Large
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
EEG
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00352/full