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MU29-Perception/Cogn
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Surprise feeling: | [rupture][relaxed <->tense], [warm<->cold] (awe, anticipation, rupture) |
| Sonic descriptors organized around terms developed by David Huron. Certainty/Uncertainty: | predictable <-> unpredictable (event domain, frequency domain) consistent<->varied |
| Tendency pt 1: | louder<->softer(loudness), lower<->higher (pitch,frequency bands),dull<->bright (timbre, loudness), thin <-> thick (event domain, texture, timbre), slow <-> fast (tempo, event domain), consonant<->dissonant (frequency domain) |
| Tendency pt 2: | order <-> disorder (order-disorder continuum), opening<->continuuing<->closing (global morphology), empty <-> sparse<->full<->overcrowded (event domain, texture), |
| Tendency pt 3: | smooth <-> rough (timbre), relaxed<->tense (frequency domain, grid-time), dry<->wet (resonance, room effects), simple<->complex (global morphology, form, structure), frontal<->close<->distant<->infinite (spatial location) |
| Completion: | weak <-> strong (global morphology, form, structure), inconclusive <-> finished (global morphology, form, structure) |
| Mobility: | flowing <-> halting (event domain), static <-> active <-> motion-filled (event domain), continuity <-> discontinuity (global morphology, form, structure) |
| Stability: | stable <-> unstable <-> volatile/turbulent (event domain, frequency domain) |
| Power: | weak <-> strong (frequency domain, event domain), delicate<-> muscular (frequency domain, event domain) |
| Emotion: | warm <-> cold (global morphology) |
| Extinction | When a passage slows down or otherwise extinguishes itself slowly. |
| Suspension | When a passage first establishes itself in a process, then has a brief pause of some sort where time is suspended for an instant. |
| Putting on the Breaks | When a pulsing passage slows down rapidly to a halt. |
| Taking it to the max | When a passage pushes the limits of some boundary -- it can be a human performance limit, or some form of saturation of a process. in this temporal mode the music hits the limit of one continuum and is on the verge of a state change. |
| Compression-change | When musical material speeds up rapidly, then breaks into almost silence followed by something new. |
| Compression-fall | When musical material speeds up rapidly, then falls in frequency and then into silence. |
| Endless Trajectory | When musical material spins itself out as if without end. |
| Stationary | When musical material is in an unchanging musical state or moment, but might have a type of fixed motion like a mobile. |
| Beginning | When there is lengthy feeling of starting up something. |
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