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tonal tension: a standalone construct

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Music psychology

the felt build-up and release of instability over a passage of tonal music, predicted from harmonic distance and voice-leading.

In music psychology, tonal tension refers to the felt build-up and release of instability over a passage of tonal music, predicted from harmonic distance and voice-leading. This meaning comes from Lerdahl (2007) in Music Perception.[1]

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harmonic3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs instability3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs passage1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Lerdahl, F., & Krumhansl, C. L. (2007). Modeling Tonal Tension. Music Perception, 24(4), 329-366. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2007.24.4.329

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