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Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs
We examined pitch-error detection in well-known songs sung with or without meaningful lyrics. In Experiment 1, adults heard the initial phrase of familiar songs sung with lyrics or repeating syllables (la) and judged whether they heard an out-of-tune note. Half of the renditions had a single pitch e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9751439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36532618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03057356221087447 |
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description | We examined pitch-error detection in well-known songs sung with or without meaningful lyrics. In Experiment 1, adults heard the initial phrase of familiar songs sung with lyrics or repeating syllables (la) and judged whether they heard an out-of-tune note. Half of the renditions had a single pitch error (50 or 100 cents); half were in tune. Listeners were poorer at pitch-error detection in songs with lyrics. In Experiment 2, within-note pitch fluctuations in the same performances were eliminated by auto-tuning. Again, pitch-error detection was worse for renditions with lyrics (50 cents), suggesting adverse effects of semantic processing. In Experiment 3, songs were sung with repeating syllables or scat syllables to ascertain the role of phonetic variability. Performance was poorer for scat than for repeating syllables, indicating adverse effects of phonetic variability, but overall performance exceeded Experiment 1. In Experiment 4, listeners evaluated songs in all styles (repeating syllables, scat, lyrics) within the same session. Performance was best with repeating syllables (50 cents) and did not differ between scat or lyric versions. In short, tracking the pitches of highly familiar songs was impaired by the presence of words, an impairment stemming primarily from phonetic variability rather than interference from semantic processing. |
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spelling | pubmed-97514392022-12-16 Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs Weiss, Michael W Trehub, Sandra E Psychol Music Original Empirical Investigations We examined pitch-error detection in well-known songs sung with or without meaningful lyrics. In Experiment 1, adults heard the initial phrase of familiar songs sung with lyrics or repeating syllables (la) and judged whether they heard an out-of-tune note. Half of the renditions had a single pitch error (50 or 100 cents); half were in tune. Listeners were poorer at pitch-error detection in songs with lyrics. In Experiment 2, within-note pitch fluctuations in the same performances were eliminated by auto-tuning. Again, pitch-error detection was worse for renditions with lyrics (50 cents), suggesting adverse effects of semantic processing. In Experiment 3, songs were sung with repeating syllables or scat syllables to ascertain the role of phonetic variability. Performance was poorer for scat than for repeating syllables, indicating adverse effects of phonetic variability, but overall performance exceeded Experiment 1. In Experiment 4, listeners evaluated songs in all styles (repeating syllables, scat, lyrics) within the same session. Performance was best with repeating syllables (50 cents) and did not differ between scat or lyric versions. In short, tracking the pitches of highly familiar songs was impaired by the presence of words, an impairment stemming primarily from phonetic variability rather than interference from semantic processing. SAGE Publications 2022-05-09 2023-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9751439/ /pubmed/36532618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03057356221087447 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Empirical Investigations Weiss, Michael W Trehub, Sandra E Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs |
title | Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs |
title_full | Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs |
title_fullStr | Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs |
title_full_unstemmed | Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs |
title_short | Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs |
title_sort | detection of pitch errors in well-known songs |
topic | Original Empirical Investigations |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9751439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36532618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03057356221087447 |
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