Children's Implicit Knowledge of Harmony in Western Music

Autor/inn/en	Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Bigand, Emmanuel; Poulin-Charronnat, Benedicte; Garnier, Cecilia; Stevens, Catherine
Titel	Children's Implicit Knowledge of Harmony in Western Music
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 8 (2005) 6, S.551-566 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00447.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Children; Music; Western Civilization; Knowledge Level; Cognitive Development; Learning Processes; Syntax; Australia; Canada; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Musik; Wissensbasis; Kognitive Entwicklung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Australien; Kanada; Frankreich
Abstract	Three experiments examined children's knowledge of harmony in Western music. The children heard a series of chords followed by a final, target chord. In Experiment 1, French 6- and 11-year-olds judged whether the target was sung with the vowel /i/ or /u/. In Experiment 2, Australian 8- and 11-year-olds judged whether the target was played on a piano or a trumpet. In Experiment 3, Canadian 8- and 11-year-olds judged whether the target sounded good (i.e. consonant) or bad (dissonant). The target was either the most stable chord in the established musical key (i.e. the tonic, based on do, the first note of the scale) or a less stable chord. Performance was faster (Experiments 1, 2 and 3) and more accurate (Experiment 3) when the target was the tonic chord. The findings confirm that children have implicit knowledge of syntactic functions that typify Western harmony. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10