Abstract
Musically trained and untrained subjects rate the degree of «harmony» and «pleasantness» of melodic intervals in semitone steps or quater-semitone steps over more than one octave. The ratings of musically trained subjects exhibit cyclic factors such as octaves and fifths, and a monotonic factor of pitch height. However, no other cyclic factors were found. Therefore, a multidimensional model of musical pitch was only partly supported. No microtonal structure smaller than a semitone was found, and the melodic-interval discriminability of musically trained subjects is estimated to be half a semitone. The ratings of musically untrained subjects showed only the effect of pitch height, suggesting that musical experience affects the perception of tonal structure
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