At a larger scale, the overall pattern of the melody, as dictated by the melodic contour, plays a crucial role in melodic perception. Models of interval sizes, such as Implication Realization Model, Gap Fill, and Gestalt theories, are closely related to expectation. (This is in contrast to simultaneously presented pitches, which defines harmony as discussed in the next unit.) From a perceptual perspective, much of the importance of melody lies in the relationships between successive pitches in a melody, i.e.
#GESTALT SIMILARITY SERIES#
A melody is defined as a series of pitches presented in succession.
Ehrenfels’ research was the point of departure for Wertheimer, Koffka and Köhler who outlined Gestalt theory during the early 1910s while working at the Frankfurt university.Īccording to Ehrenfels, a melody could serve as an example for such a Gestalt quality, since the tones as elements of the melody can be replaced by completely different tones, and it would still be heard as the same melody provided that the arrangement relationship between the tones is preserved. On Gestalt Qualities), Austrian philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels made the claim that perception contains qualities that do not result from the arrangement of simple sensory qualities. In his 1890 article Über Gestaltqualitäten (engl. Gestalt psychology is a direction within psychology that describes human perception as the ability to identify structures and principles of order in sensory information. In this unit we will discuss melody from a Gestalt perspective. Invariance: Constancy of Size and Loudness.
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