Patrones tonales, generalización por clases y representación de la tonalidad. Un modelo de cognición tonal dependiente del contexto y el aprendizaje

Juan Fernando Anta

doi:10.21932/epistemus.2.2717.0

Authors

Juan Fernando Anta Universidad Nacional de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21932/epistemus.2.2717.0

Keywords:

cognición tonal, patrones tonales, generalización por clases

Abstract

In this paper, two well-known models of tonal cognition are reviewed: the distributional model and the interval classes’ vectors (or functional) model. It is argued that these models have some intrinsic problems, particularly about how they propose that tonality is induced and mentally represented. The main problem would be that both of them assume that tonality is represented in terms of classes of musical elements, classes of pitches or classes of pitch intervals, respectively; this is a problem because these classes of elements may not have cognitive reality in listeners’ musical mind. Hence, a model of tonal cognition is proposed that is not based on the idea of ‘class of elements’, but on the idea of inference and progressive generalization of tonal sense. According to this model, tonality would be inferred from the actual elements contained in the musical context being perceived and, finally, it would be represented in terms of tonally active areas whose size and internal profile depend on both musical context and listener’s musical training.

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