TY - JOUR
T1 - Scanning the dial
T2 - The rapid recognition of music genres
AU - Gjerdingen, Robert O.
AU - Perrott, David
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - Given brief excerpts of commercially recorded music in one of ten broad genres of music, participants in this study were asked to evaluate each excerpt and to assign it to one of the ten genre labels. It was expected that participants would be good at this task, since they were the very consumers for whom much of this music had been created. But the speed at which participants could perform this task, including above-chance categorizations of excerpts as short as 1/4 second, was quite unexpected.
AB - Given brief excerpts of commercially recorded music in one of ten broad genres of music, participants in this study were asked to evaluate each excerpt and to assign it to one of the ten genre labels. It was expected that participants would be good at this task, since they were the very consumers for whom much of this music had been created. But the speed at which participants could perform this task, including above-chance categorizations of excerpts as short as 1/4 second, was quite unexpected.
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U2 - 10.1080/09298210802479268
DO - 10.1080/09298210802479268
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:57049173452
SN - 0929-8215
VL - 37
SP - 93
EP - 100
JO - Journal of New Music Research
JF - Journal of New Music Research
IS - 2
ER -