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tonal hierarchy: a standalone construct

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tonalhierarchy1 CONSTRUCTTonal hierarchyKRUMHANSL · MUSIC PSYCHOLOGY

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Music psychology

the ordering of pitches within a key by how stable or central they feel, with the tonic most stable and nonscale tones least.

In music psychology, tonal hierarchy refers to the ordering of pitches within a key by how stable or central they feel, with the tonic most stable and nonscale tones least. This meaning comes from Krumhansl (1979) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.[1]

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  1. Krumhansl, C. L., & Shepard, R. N. (1979). Quantification of the hierarchy of tonal functions within a diatonic context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 5(4), 579-594. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.5.4.579

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