S1-Stimuli for the dissertation "Memory for Melody: Investigating the link between experience, perception, and memory formation"
  • Description

    This data set contains the online supplement to Steffen A. Herff’s study ‘Memory for Melody: Investigating the link between experience, perception, and memory formation’, a dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It contains the stimuli used in 10 experiments in the forms of midi and wav files of melodies in different tuning systems, as well as musical feature analyses of the stimuli. Experiments 1 and 2 used melodies composed by Steffen Herff. Experiment 3 and 4 used a corpus of European folk songs. Experiment 5 and 6 used melodies in a microtonal tuning system developed by Steffen Herff. Experiments 7 to 10 used sound sequences developed by Jon Prince.


    • Data publication title S1-Stimuli for the dissertation "Memory for Melody: Investigating the link between experience, perception, and memory formation"
    • Description

      This data set contains the online supplement to Steffen A. Herff’s study ‘Memory for Melody: Investigating the link between experience, perception, and memory formation’, a dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It contains the stimuli used in 10 experiments in the forms of midi and wav files of melodies in different tuning systems, as well as musical feature analyses of the stimuli. Experiments 1 and 2 used melodies composed by Steffen Herff. Experiment 3 and 4 used a corpus of European folk songs. Experiment 5 and 6 used melodies in a microtonal tuning system developed by Steffen Herff. Experiments 7 to 10 used sound sequences developed by Jon Prince.


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      • Melodies
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    • Start date 2017/03/17
    • End date 2017/03/17
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      Attachment S1_Stimuli.zip
      The Data Manager is: Steffen Herff
      Access conditions Open
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      The data will be licensed under CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
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    • Statement of rights in data Experiments 3-4 MIDI files from the Essen Folksong Collection copyright Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (1995). Experiments 7-10 Wav files developed by Jon Prince (Released with permission). CSV files and other unspecified files copyright Steffen Herff.
      Citation Herff, Steffen (2017): S1-Stimuli for the dissertation "Memory for Melody: Investigating the link between experience, perception, and memory formation". Western Sydney University.