Krumhansl and Kessler’s (1982) pioneering experiments on tonal hierarchies in Western music have long been considered the gold standard for researchers interested in the mental representation of musical pitch structure. The current experiment used the probe tone technique to investigate the tonal hierarchy in classical and rock music. As predicted, the observed profiles for these two styles were structurally similar, reflecting a shared underlying Western tonal structure. Most interestingly, however, the rock profile was significantly less differentiated than the classical profile, reflecting theoretical work that describes pitch organization in rock music as more permissive and less hierarchical than in classical music. This line of research contradicts the idea that music from the common-practice era is representative of all Western musics, and challenges music cognition researchers to explore style-appropriate stimuli and models of pitch structure for their experiments.

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探测音范式揭示了摇滚音乐中差异化程度较低的音调层次

Krumhansl 和 Kessler (1982) 对西方音乐中音调等级的开创性实验长期以来一直被认为是对音乐音高结构的心理表征感兴趣的研究人员的黄金标准。目前的实验使用探测音技术来研究古典音乐和摇滚音乐中的音调层次。正如预测的那样，观察到的这两种风格的配置文件在结构上相似，反映了共同的潜在西方色调结构。然而，最有趣的是，摇滚风格的差异明显低于古典风格，这反映了理论工作将摇滚音乐中的音高组织描述为比古典音乐更宽松且层次更少。这一研究方向与普遍实践时代的音乐代表所有西方音乐的观点相矛盾，