1. Music Cognition and Tonality: A Composer’s Perpective

2. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“… and there is haunting music from Richard Hodges which stays in your subconscious after the evening has ended”.
British Theatre Guide, Buxton Opera House Performance, Steve Orme
“Well acted, though a little stark for me - but I loved the music”
The Comet, Stevenage, Maureen Millard

3. Music Cognition Music and the Brain
Perception of Pitch, Rhythm and Tonality
Memory
Emotion and Personality

4. Tonality
“Tonality, in music, principle of organizing musical compositions around a central note, the tonic. Generally, any Western or non-Western music periodically returning to a central, or focal, tone exhibits tonality.” Encyclopaedia Britannica

5. Roger N. Shepard
Pitch Helix (1964)

6. Some important definitions:
Octave Equivalence
Pitch Height
Chroma
Modulation

7. Tonality
“More specifically, tonality refers to the particular system of relationships between notes, chords, and keys (sets of notes and chords) that dominated most Western music from c to c and that continues to regulate much music.” Encyclopaedia Britannica

8. Tonal Hierarchy Theory
Conical Configuration of Musical Pitch Krumhansl, 1979

9. Tonal Closure (Perfect, Plagal, Imperfect and Interrupted) Cadences

10. Intervallic Rivalry Uniqueness of intervallic occurrences

13. Tonal Specificity
Chronometric Analysis
Reaction Time Measures as evidence of abstraction to a tonal schema and hierarchical listening

14. Is tonal closure the enemy of successful background/incidental/soundtrack music?