АННОТАЦИЯ
Many studies within the framework of the Western music psychology demonstrate the ability of non-musicians to recognize major and minor musical scales. The aim of this work is to study the ability of subjects to evaluate the emotional valence of major and minor triad chords based solely on their tonal characteristics, as well as to find out what differentiates musicians from non-musicians in recognizing emotions caused by isolated musical chords, both generated and real. The study involved 103 subjects. The stimuli consist of three groups of generated major and minor triad chords and one group played on the piano. For the evaluation of stimuli, two sets of unipolar and bipolar scales formed on the basis of the previous free descriptions are used. The specific attenuation pattern of the signal's intensity (i.e., sustain, decay and release segments of the amplitude envelope) is the decisive factor for major and minor chords perception. Without it, amateurs are unable to estimate the differences between the chords while its presence almost equates amateur listeners and professionals in their evaluations. Although, the latter are able to distinguish the chords based solely on the tonal structure, the presence of the amplitude decay influence their perception by either enriching it more than two times or considerably impoverishing it, depending on the familiarity of the attenuation pattern.
ЦИТАТА
Skorik, S.O. The Role of the Amplitude Decay for the Evaluation of Major and Minor Chords in Amateur Listeners and Professionals / S.O. Skorik, N.A. Almayev // Natural Systems of Mind. – 2023. – Т. 3. – № 1. – P. 64-80
