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melodic gap-fill: a standalone construct

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the claim that a melodic leap creates a gap that later notes tend to fill in stepwise, tested here as a melodic archetype listeners might use.

In music theory, melodic gap-fill refers to the claim that a melodic leap creates a gap that later notes tend to fill in stepwise, tested here as a melodic archetype listeners might use. This meaning comes from von Hippel (2000) in Music Perception.[1]

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References

von Hippel, P. (2000). Questioning a Melodic Archetype: Do Listeners Use Gap-Fill to Classify Melodies? Music Perception, 18(2), 139-153. https://doi.org/10.2307/40285906

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