Old instruments or new? Listeners’ preferences for Baroque violin music performed on period and modern instruments

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Psychology of Music Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI:10.1177/03057356251364857

D. Gregory Springer, Tyler J. Goehring

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Abstract

When performing music of earlier eras, musicians commonly perform on period instruments, yet there is limited empirical evidence regarding listeners’ perceptions of those instruments compared with modern instruments. In two experiments, we examined listeners’ preferences for Baroque violin music performed on period and modern instruments. In Experiment 1, collegiate musicians listened to an excerpt from Telemann’s Concerto à 4 Violini No. 1 performed both on period instruments and modern instruments and indicated which performance they preferred. Results revealed a small but nonsignificant preference for the period instruments and participants explained that their preferences were primarily due to elements related to tuning, intonation, and key. In Experiment 2, participants listened to both recordings and rated their enjoyment and perceived performance quality. However, participants heard one of the three types of framing information (congruent, incongruent, or none) regarding the instruments used in the recording (period vs. modern instruments). Participants provided significantly higher enjoyment ratings when they were told they were listening to period instrument recordings, whether or not they actually heard period instruments. However, significant condition by order interaction effects indicate that participants’ perceptions were further influenced by the order of recordings.

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旧乐器还是新乐器？听众对巴洛克时期和现代乐器演奏的小提琴音乐的偏好

当演奏早期的音乐时，音乐家们通常使用古代乐器，然而，与现代乐器相比，听众对这些乐器的看法的经验证据有限。在两个实验中，我们研究了听众对巴洛克时期和现代乐器演奏的小提琴音乐的偏好。在实验1中，大学生音乐家们听了一段泰勒曼的《第一小提琴协奏曲》的节选，用古典乐器和现代乐器演奏，并指出他们更喜欢哪一种演奏。结果显示，人们对古典乐器的偏好很小，但并不显著。参与者解释说，他们的偏好主要是由于与调音、语调和琴键有关的因素。在实验2中，参与者听了两段录音，并对他们的享受程度和感知到的演奏质量进行了评分。然而，参与者听到的三种类型的框架信息（一致、不一致或不一致）中的一种是关于录音中使用的乐器（古代乐器与现代乐器）。当参与者被告知他们在听古典乐器录音时，无论他们是否真的听到了古典乐器，他们都提供了明显更高的享受评级。然而，显著的顺序交互效应表明，参与者的知觉进一步受到录音顺序的影响。

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期刊介绍： Psychology of Music and SEMPRE provide an international forum for researchers working in the fields of psychology of music and music education, to encourage the exchange of ideas and to disseminate research findings. Psychology of Music publishes peer-reviewed papers directed at increasing the scientific understanding of any psychological aspect of music. These include studies on listening, performing, creating, memorising, analysing, describing, learning, and teaching, as well as applied social, developmental, attitudinal and therapeutic studies. Special emphasis is placed on studies carried out in naturalistic settings, especially those which address the interface between music psychology and music education.