A LETTER from Dr. R. H. Bellairs, of Cheltenham, appeared in the Times of June 14, describing the performance “by a wild bird, probably a thrush, of the arpeggio of the common chord in tune, ...

In an investigation of interactions between scales and intervals in music cognition, melodic intervals were judged in three preceding-scale contexts: diatonic, chromatic, and no scale. Musically less ...

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The present study investigates the relationship between musical experience and subjects' conception of accurate tuning. In a paired comparisons experiment, 7 violinists, 7 pianists, and 10 ...