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Lerdahl and Jackendoff's Grouping Structure Rules in the Performance of a Hindemith Sonata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Jose A. Ordoñana  and
Ana Laucirica
Jose A. Ordoñana*
Affiliation:
Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain) Universidad del País Vasco (Spain)
Ana Laucirica
Affiliation:
Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain)
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jose A. Ordoñana. Departamento de Psicología y Pedagogía. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales. Universidad Pública de Navarra. Campus de Arrosadía s/n. 31006 Pamplona. Navarra. (Spain). Phone: +34-948169245. Fax: +34-948169891. E-mail: jose.ordonana@unavarra.es
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Abstract

In the last decades, musical cognitive psychology has intervened to build a bridge towards the comprehension of musical structures. The present paper studies the behavior of several students and music professionals in relation to grouping structure and it does so through the performance analysis of the first movement of Hindemith's sonata for flute and piano, according to the rules formulated by Lerdahl and Jackendoff, movement chosen because of its tonal ambiguity. The participants of this experiment are three medium level female Conservatory students. They performed the aforementioned piece after studying it for a whole trimester. The performance of the same piece by three professional musicians was also analyzed, using the appropriate commercial recordings for this purpose. This analysis includes the choice of group limits used in performance by both professionals and students and the comparison of both groups' results. Differences were observed in the placement of said limits by the different groups but all of them respected the set of rules formulated by Lerdahl and Jackendoff.

En las últimas décadas la psicología cognitiva de la música ha intervenido en el acercamiento hacia la comprensión de las estructuras musicales. Este trabajo estudia el comportamiento de algunos estudiantes y profesionales de la música en relación con la estructura de agrupación. Se trata de un análisis de la interpretación del primer movimiento de la sonata para flauta y piano de Hindemith según las reglas formuladas por Lerdahl y Jackendoff, movimiento elegido por su ambigüedad tonal. En este experimento participan tres alumnas de grado medio de conservatorio. Las alumnas interpretarán la obra mencionada después de haberla estudiado durante un trimestre completo. Además, se analiza la interpretación de la misma obra por parte de tres profesionales, utilizando para ello las grabaciones comerciales correspondientes. Se analizan los límites de grupo realizados en la interpretación, tanto por parte de las alumnas como de los profesionales y, a continuación, se comparan los resultados entre los grupos. Se aprecian diferencias en cuanto a los puntos elegidos para la colocación de los límites, pero todos ellos pueden encuadrarse dentro de las reglas formuladas por Lerdahl y Jackendoff.

Keywords

musical cognitionGestalt and musicgrouping structuressegmentationmusic educationcognición musicalGestalt y músicaestructuras de agrupaciónsegmentación musicaleducación musical
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , May 2010 , pp. 101 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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