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Categorisation of musical structures
by school-aged children Marc Mélen, Sandrine Predazzer et Irène Deliège Université de Liège, Belgique Categorisation skills appear crucial in the context of music perception, in order to build up relation networks between the structures that constitue a piece and, consequently, in or der to perceive the musical form. Several previous reasearch showed that adult listeners display strong categorisation skills for musical sequences. The developement of these skills, however, have been barely studied. Children, aged 7 to 9 years, musicians and non-musicians, listened to two short pieces of piano music. The pieces were based on two parent-structures exposed at the beginning of the piece, that were then varied during the rest of the piece. After the audition of a piece, the children were presented with three tasks: 1) guessing of the frequency of apparition of the structures A and B and their variants; 2) classification of the variants of the parent-structures in their respective family; 3) evaluation of the similarity between the parent-structures and their variants. The experiments are being run. If children do like adult subjects, musicians and non-musicians should reach similar performances in the first task, wheareas an advantage should appear for the musician participants in the other tasks. performances of children will be compared to adult listeners. The results will be examined from different theoretical viewpoints concerning the development of categorisation. Keywords: child, categorisation, musical form |
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