Sweet Anticipation

Huron, D. (2006). Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. MIT Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2006

Link

https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/1961/Sweet-AnticipationMusic-and-the-Psychology-of

Cited from

cognitive_science, music_musicology

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Expectation Violation
  • It also demonstrates valence neutrality, since the breach is the reason the passage is worth hearing rather than a defect in it, which is precisely why incompatibility and not harm is the defining relation.

    This sourceArgues tonal expectations are acquired by statistical exposure to a corpus, so an identical acoustic event breaches nothing for an unexposed listener, and treats the resulting responses as hedonically various rather than aversive.

• Rhythm
  • A purely uniform sequence of identical pulses carries almost no information once the period is known; a rhythm carries information continuously, because each event either fulfils or surprises the expectation the frame has set up.

Mechanisms

• Rhythm Break or Pause
  • Its strength is efficiency: silence set against a strongly established beat is maximally salient at essentially zero cost, because a rhythm the audience has learned to predict generates a sharp expectation, and the violated expectation is what reorients attention.

    This sourceExplains how learned musical regularities generate expectations and how violations of those expectations produce attention-orienting responses.

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