Mild Dissonance Preferred Over Consonance in Single Chord Perception

Previous research on harmony perception has mainly been concerned with horizontal aspects of harmony, turning less attention to how listeners perceive psychoacoustic qualities and emotions in single isolated chords. A recent study found mild dissonances to be more preferred than consonances in singl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Imre Lahdelma, Tuomas Eerola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-06-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516655812