What to Expect When the Unexpected Becomes Expected: Harmonic Surprise and Preference Over Time in Popular Music

Previous work demonstrates that music with more surprising chords tends to be perceived as more enjoyable than music with more conventional harmonic structures. In that work, harmonic surprise was computed based upon a static distribution of chords. This would assume that harmonic surprise is consta...

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Main Authors: Scott A. Miles, David S. Rosen, Shaun Barry, David Grunberg, Norberto Grzywacz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.578644/full