Dimension analysis of the perception of musical style.

Wedin, L. Dimension analysis of the perception of musical style. Scand. J. Psychol., 1969, 10, 97–108.-The subjective similarity of ten short excerpts from musical works ranging over the period of 1720–1890 was studied by (I) the direct multidimensional ratio scaling method and (2) by the method of similarity analysis. Factor analysis extracted three or four factors depending on the degree of musical training of the subjects. The differentiation and inter-pretability of the factors were higher for subjects with more musical training and interest. The factors were labeled ‘Baroque’, ‘Rococo’, ‘Viennese classicism’ and ‘Romanticism’.

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