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Introduction -- I. Gestalt theory revisited. Origin and nature of cognitive and systematic musicology: an introduction / Marc Leman and Albrecht Schneider -- Systematic, cognitive and historical approaches in musicology / Jukka Louhivuori -- Empiricism, gestalt qualities, and determination of style: some remarks concerning the relationship of Guido Adler to Richard Wallaschek, Alexius Meinong, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Robert Lach / Michael Weber -- Gestalt concepts and music: limitations and possibilities / Mark Reybrouck -- Logic, gestalt theory, and neural computation in research on auditory perceptual organization / Randolph Eichert, Luder Schmidt, and Uwe Seifert -- Knowledge in music theory by shapes of musical objects and sound-producing actions / Rolf Inge Godoy -- Statistical gestalts: Perceptible features in serial music / Elena Ungeheur -- II. From pitch to harmony. "Verschmelzung", tonal fusion, and consonance: Carl Stumpf revisited / Albrecht Schneider -- Schema and gestalt: testing the hypothesis of psychoneural isomorphism by computer simulation / Marc Leman and Francesco Carreras -- Self-organizing neural nets and the perceptual origin of the circle of fifths / Nicola Cufaro Petroni and Matteo Tricarico -- A model of the perceptual root(s) of a chord accounting for voicing and prevailing tonality / Richard Parncutt -- 'Good', 'rair', and 'bad' chord progressions: a regression-analysis of some psychological chord progression data obtained in an experiment by J. Bharucha and C. Krumhansl / Daniel Werts -- Problems of shape and background in sounds with inharmonic spectra / Jeno Keuler -- A method of analysing harmony, based on interval patterns or "Gestalten" / Roland Eberlein -- Neural network models for the study of post-tonal music / Eric Isaacson -- III. From rhythm to expectation. Tempo relations: is there a psychological basis for proportional tempo theory? / Marek Franek and Jiri Mates -- A framework for the subsymbolic description of meter / Dirk Moelants -- Musical rhythm: a formal model for determining local boundaries, accents and metre in a melodic surface / Emilios Cambouropoulos -- Effects of perceptual organization and musical form on melodic expectancies / Carol Krumhansl -- Continuations as completions: studying melodic expectation in the creative microdomain Seek Well / Steve Larson -- IV. From timbre to texture. Optimizing self-organizing timbre maps: two approaches / Petri Toiviainen -- Towards a more general understanding of the nasality phenomenon / Milan Rusko -- Karl Erich Schumann's principles of timbre as a helpful tool in stream segregation research / Christoph Reuter -- Cross-synthesis using interverted principal harmonic sub-spaces / Thierry Rochebois and Gerard Charbonneau -- Gestalt phenomena in musical texture / Dalia Cohen and Shlomo Dubnov -- V. From musical expression to interactive computer systems. Technology of interpretation and expressive pulses / Andranick Tanguiane -- Intonational protention in the performance of melodic octaves on the violin / Janina Fyk -- Sonological analysis of clarinet expressivity / Sergio Canazza, Giovanni De Poli, Stefano Rinaldin and Alvise Vidolin -- Perceptual analysis of the musical expressive intention in a clarinet performance / Sergio Canazza, Giovanni De Poli and Alvise Vidolin -- Singing, mind and brain: Unit pulse, rhythm, emotion and expression / Eliezer Rapoport -- Emulating gestalt mechanisms by combining symbolic and subsymbolic information processing procedures / Udo Mattusch -- Interactive computer music systems and concepts of gestalt / Paul Modler -- Gestalt-based composition and performance in multimodal environments / Antonio Camurri and Marc Leman -- VI. List of sound examples on the CD. |
