The Effect of Isomorphic Pitch Layouts on the Transfer of Musical Learning †
| Autor: | Andrew J. Milne, Sophia Stanford, Jennifer MacRitchie |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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isomorphic layouts
perception and action Computer science Musical lcsh:Technology 050105 experimental psychology 060404 music Task (project management) lcsh:Chemistry 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Materials Science Arithmetic lcsh:QH301-705.5 Instrumentation Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes lcsh:T Learnability Process Chemistry and Technology 05 social sciences Piano General Engineering 06 humanities and the arts sound and music computing pitch layouts lcsh:QC1-999 Computer Science Applications lcsh:Biology (General) lcsh:QD1-999 lcsh:TA1-2040 new musical instruments Isomorphism lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Motor learning Transfer of learning motor learning lcsh:Physics 0604 arts Pitch (Music) |
| Zdroj: | Applied Sciences Volume 8 Issue 12 Applied Sciences, Vol 8, Iss 12, p 2514 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2076-3417 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/app8122514 |
| Popis: | The physical arrangement of pitches in most traditional musical instruments&mdash including the piano and guitar&mdash is non-isomorphic, which means that a given spatial relationship between two keys, buttons, or fretted strings can produce differing musical pitch intervals. Recently, a number of new musical interfaces have been developed with isomorphic pitch layouts where these relationships are consistent. Since the nineteenth century, it has been widely considered that isomorphic pitch layouts facilitate the learnability and playability of instruments, particularly when a piece is transposed into a different key however, prior to this paper, this has not been experimentally tested. To address this, we investigated four different pitch layouts to examine whether isomorphism facilitates retention and transfer of musical learning within and across keys. Both non-musicians and musicians were tested on two training tasks: two immediate retention tasks and a transfer task. Each participant played every task on two distinct layouts&mdash one being an isomorphic layout (Wicki or Bosanquet), the other being a minimally adjusted non-isomorphic version. For musicians, isomorphism was found to facilitate transfer of learning to a novel task for non-musicians, the results were mixed. This study provides insight into features that are important to music instrument design. |
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