Part I—due April 25
Stevens, S. S. “On the Theory of Scales of Measurement.” In Science, New Series, Vol. 103, No. 2684 (Jun. 7, 1946), pp. 677-680.
And here’s good, brief, primer on the fundamental content of the article above, in plain English. (Or corporatespeak?): Peter Flom. Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio. Statistical Analysis Consulting (Professional/commercial web page). First retrieved September 1, 2013.
Lerdahl, Fred (1992). Cognitive constraints on compositional systems. In Contemporary Music Review 6:2, 97-121.
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Part II—(optional for following week)
AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS (Foundations):
Bregman, Albert. Auditory Scene Analysis: hearing in complex environments. In McAdams, S. & Bigand, E. (eds.) Thinking in Sound: The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 10-36.
Gregory, Andrew (1994). Timbre and Auditory Streaming. Music Perception 12:2, 161-174.
EXPERIMENTS:
Povel & Essens (1987). Grouping conditions in listening to music: an approach to Lerdahl & Jackendoff’s grouping preference rules. In Music Perception 4:4, 325-359.
Tekman, Hasan Gürkan (1995). Cue trading in the perception of rhythmic structure. Music Perception13:1, 17-38.
Dowling, W.J. (1973). Rhythmic groups and subjective chunks in memory for melodies. Perception & Psychophysics, 14, 37-40.
Differentiation of dimensions and their impact on perception
McAdams, Stephen (1989). Psychological constraints on form-bearing dimensions in music. Originally in Contemporary Music Review, 4:1, 181-198.
McAdams, S., and Matzkin, D. (2003). “The roots of musical variation in perceptional similarity and invariance.” In I. Peretz & R. J. Zatorre (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 76-94.
Deliège, Irène (2001). Similarity Perception ↔ Categorization ↔ Cue Abstraction. In Music Perception 18:3, 233-243.
Additional reading:
Wessel, David (1979). Timbre Space as a Musical Control Structure. Computer Music Journal, 3/2, 45-52.
Carson, Benjamin (2007). Perceiving and distinguishing simple timespan ratios without metric reinforcement. Journal of New Music Research 36/4. 313-336 [focus on pp 317-322].