Subject: Vos and Troost 1989 From: Debbie Ross <debbie_ross_mcquoid@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:17:41 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hello all, I have been looking at the paper by Vos and Troost (1989) - Ascending and Descending Melodic Intervals: Statistical findings and their perceptual relevance. In the methods they state that selected between 10 ans 20 percent of all indexed beginnings of predominantly instrumental pieces of work by a number of composers. Does anyone know any futher dtail about this work? Also I am puzzled as to how they determined the melodic pattern - reported in the subsection -procedure. When I code complete melodies (from ABC) the distribution looks distincly different from that reported in the article and which is cited frequently in the subsequent literature. Many thanks in advance for any advice. Debbie ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/