A melodic process traces a melody's principal motions from its main beginning to its closure. Western tonal music seems built around a handful of different melodic processes. In each of three ...

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, International Conference on Psychology and the Arts (Spring, 1985), pp. 375-388 (14 pages) Musician ...

Intuitively, it may seem that singing is a completely different type of experience than speaking. Singing is melodic, rhythmic, and manifests in artistic expression; speech, in contrast, is more ...

Our eyes, gestures, and tone bring us together in a more profound way than words alone. It’s why we look hopefully toward the return of in-person, face-to-face connection. Intuitively, it may seem ...