Widespread but Limited in Context: Absolute Tuning Judgments are Disrupted by Relative Pitch Cues

Q1 Arts and Humanities
Stephen C. Van Hedger, Noah R. Bongiovanni
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Abstract

Most listeners exhibit absolute pitch memory for familiar pitched sounds, ranging from simple tones (e.g., the “bleep” used to censor broadcast media) to rich, polyphonic melodies (e.g., excerpts from popular songs). Given that relative pitch is the predominant means of processing music for most listeners, this observed absolute pitch memory suggests that most listeners have hybrid representations, containing both absolute and relative pitch cues. The present experiment assesses how relative pitch cues influence absolute pitch memory in a variety of listening contexts, varying in terms of ecological validity. Participants were asked to explicitly judge different musical sounds (isolated notes, chords, scales, and short excerpts), varying in complexity, in terms of absolute tuning (i.e., whether a musical sound adhered to conventional, A440 tuning). Listeners showed robust above-chance performance in judging absolute tuning when the to-be-judged sounds did not contain relative pitch changes (i.e., isolated notes and chords), replicating prior work. Critically, however, performance was significantly reduced and was not statistically different from chance when the musical sounds contained relative pitch changes (scales and short excerpts). Taken together, the results suggest that most listeners possess some long-term memory for absolute tuning, but this ability has limited generalizability to more ecologically valid musical contexts that contain relative pitch changes.
广泛但有限的语境:绝对调音判断被相对音高线索打乱
大多数听众对熟悉的音调表现出绝对的音高记忆,从简单的音调(例如,用于审查广播媒体的“哔哔声”)到丰富的复调旋律(例如,流行歌曲的节选)。考虑到相对音高是大多数听众处理音乐的主要方式,这种观察到的绝对音高记忆表明,大多数听众都有混合表征,包括绝对和相对音高线索。本实验评估相对音高线索如何影响绝对音高记忆在各种听力环境中,在生态效度方面的变化。参与者被要求明确地判断不同的音乐声音(单独的音符、和弦、音阶和短节选),这些声音在复杂性和绝对调音(即,一个音乐声音是否遵循常规的A440调音)方面有所不同。当待判断的声音不包含相对音高变化(即孤立的音符和和弦)时,听众在判断绝对调音方面表现出了高于机会的强劲表现,这与之前的工作是一样的。然而,关键的是,当音乐声音包含相对的音高变化(音阶和短节选)时,表现显着降低,并且没有统计学上的差异。综上所述,结果表明大多数听众对绝对调音有一定的长期记忆,但这种能力在包含相对音高变化的更生态有效的音乐背景下的推广能力有限。
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Music  Science
Music Science Arts and Humanities-Music
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