Chapter 13, Gjerdingen (p. 132)

If you were to be asked to listen to a series of musical fragments, each lasting 0.2 seconds, you would find that you had no trouble in identifying from which musical genre the fragment came: classical, jazz, R&B, or pop ...

Gjerdingen, R.O. & Perrott, D. (2008). “Scanning the dial: The rapid recognition of music genres.” Journal of New Music Research 37: 93-100.

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Chapter 10, Figure 10.1 (p. 87)

Sound Examples and Demonstrations

If the sound example shown above does not start automatically, click on the link at the right (with the title "No sound?" ) for more information about the needed plugins. For an overview of the book, see the video below. It's a registration of a presentation at TEDxAmsterdam on 25 November 2011 in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam.

Chapter 5, Billie Holiday (p. 39)

“Ooh-ooh-ooh”—we “heard” this earlier in the chapter. These are the opening sounds of a recording by Billie Holiday, the jazz singer who was all the rage in the 1950s. They were followed by the beguilingly rhyming “what a little moonlight can do-oo-oo” : words and sounds that can instantly brighten your spirits...

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