Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31527
Title: The Metaphor of Sweetness in Medieval and Modern Music Listening
Contributor(s): Stoessel, Jason  (author)orcid ; Spreadborough, Kristal  (author)orcid ; Anton-Mendez, Inés  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2021-09-01
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2021.39.1.63
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31527
Related Research Outputs: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26851
https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26565
Abstract: Historical listening has long been a topic of interest for musicologists. Yet, little attention has been given to the systematic study of historical listening practices before the common practice era (c.1700–present).In the first study of its kind, this research compared a model of medieval perceptions of "sweetness" based on writings of medieval music theorists with modern day listeners' aesthetic responses. Responses were collected through two experiments. In an implicit associations experiment, participants were primed with a more or less consonant musical excerpt, then presented with a sweet or bitter target word, or a non-word, on which to make lexical decisions. In the explicit associations experiment, participants were asked to rate on a three-point Likert scale perceived sweetness of short musical excerpts that varied in consonance and sound quality (male, female, organ). The results from these experiments were compared to predictions from a medieval perception model to investigate whether early and modern listeners have similar aesthetic responses. Results from the implicit association test were not consistent with the predictions of the model, however, results from the explicit associations experiment were. These findings indicate the metaphor of sweetness may be useful for comparing the aesthetic responses of medieval and modern listeners.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Music Perception, 39(1), p. 63-82
Publisher: University of California Press, Journals Division
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1533-8312
0730-7829
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 360306 Musicology and ethnomusicology
360301 Music cognition
460101 Applications in arts and humanities
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130102 Music
220301 Digital humanities
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School of Psychology

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