Examining the Application of Principles of Auditory Perception to Music Analysis: Building a Perception-based Music Theory to Capture Musical Features of Palestrina’s Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
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2013-05-01
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This thesis presents the argument that basic perceptual principles describing the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into perceptually meaningful units ought to play a more foundational role in music analysis. To strengthen and support this argument, an original perception-based system of analysis is proposed and applied to an excerpt of Palestrina’s “Agnus Dei” from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera. In addition, an experiment in sound perception (conducted by the author) is presented to further support the credibility of the theoretical approach described in this thesis. Various theoretical innovations are proposed in order to: 1) describe fundamental principles of music organization (the compensation principles); and 2) suggest a new general approach for the classification of musical similarity and equivalence that takes into account a hypothetical music listener, and that allows for the integration of any number of disparate musical parameters.
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Bouz, J. (2013). Examining the Application of Principles of Auditory Perception to Music Analysis: Building a Perception-based Music Theory to Capture Musical Features of Palestrina’s Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26021