Saturday, April 4, 2015

Jazz papers: A Taste for Chaos: Creative Nonfiction as Improvisation / Emotional Processing in Music: Study in Affective Responses to Tonal Modulation in Controlled Harmonic Progressions and Real Music


Since Montaigne, the rhetoric of spontaneity — spontaneity as a rhetorical device — has been a characteristic ingredient in creative nonfiction. “Is it reasonable,” asks Montaigne, "that I should set forth to the world, where fashioning and art have so much credit and authority, some crude and simple products of nature, and of a feeble nature at that? Is it not making a wall without stone, or something like that, to construct books without knowledge and without art? Musical fancies are guided by art, mine by chance" (611). Montaigne points to the implicit dialogue with artifice that lies...

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Tonal modulation is one of the main structural and expressive aspects of music in the European musical tradition. Experiment 1 investigated affective responses to modulations to all 11 major and minor keys (relative to the starting tonality) in brief, specially constructed harmonic progressions, by using six bipolar scales related to valence, potency, and synaesthesia. The results indicated the dependence of affective response on degree of modulation in terms of key proximity, and of mode. Experiment 2 examined affective responses to the most common modulations in 19th-century piano music:...

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