Wpływ wykształcenia muzycznego na grupowanie dźwięków sekwencji ABA-ABA w rytm galopujący
Abstract
The perception of sound is connected to cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and thinking and thus to the processing of audible information — it is also associated with the music skills acquired by a given individual. Depending on the experience, people whose organs of hearing are in similar physiological condition (musicians and people of no music education), differ in terms of sensitivity to sound changes, which was noted when the same acoustic wave was emitted. From the authors analysis of the literature, it transpires that musicians, as opposed to the people of no music education, process sounds in a different way, which was an inspiration for designing and performing a psychoacoustic experiment comparing the two groups. This article presents the infuence of music education on the grouping of sounds into perception streams, with the use of the sounds ABA-ABA, which make up the pattern of the 'gallop rhythm.” The experiment carried out in both groups confirms that musicians utilize specific skills for an auditory assessment of the sound, which allows them to perceive the "gallop rhythm,” whereas people of no music education cannot follow the "gallop rhythm,” which is present in the samples of the ABA-ABA pattern, in their perception field. The inquiry into the relevant literature leads to the conclusion that psychoacoustic research is ambiguous and gives mixed results, at least as to the respondents' answers. The ambiguity may result from the fact that music education was not taken into account as a factor that differentiates the assessment of the perceived sounds. Psychoacoustic analyses are mostly based on the physical assessment of the organ of hearing, ignoring the issue of music education, which may have a significant impact on the interpretation of the results in the group of people mentioned above. It is of particular importance for the performed experiment to note if the respondents have music education, as such information can bring us closer to determining why people of the same physiological conditio of hearing differ in the way of processing sounds into perception streams.
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Rosiński, A. (2021). Wpływ wykształcenia muzycznego na grupowanie dźwięków sekwencji ABA-ABA w rytm galopujący. W: A. Rosiński (red.), Przestrzenie akustyki. Professional Acoustics (s. 53-70). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie.