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Why do we like the music that we like? This seemingly simple question is surprisingly understudied. This dissertation aims to give some answers to this question, with a focus on analyzing the dataset of the FAV Corpus, a collection of pieces and excerpts that 140 survey participants gave as their favorite musical moments. Following a review of the literature on music preference, the study presents two hypotheses that pertain to the excerpts in the FAV Corpus. Both hypotheses are grounded in existing theory, and justified from multiple viewpoints, ranging from psychology, to evolutionary biology, to anecdotes by music scholars in diverse genres. The first hypothesis (the “C-S hypothesis”) predicts that the excerpts in the corpus will tend to be moments of decreased complexity. The second hypothesis (the “Formal Returns hypothesis”) predicts that the excerpts will tend to be formal returns as well. The C-S hypothesis is tested using an “AB/BC” paradigm with expert judges rating the perceived complexity of each stimulus. The result is that, surprisingly, participants’ favorite excerpts in the corpus were moments of increased complexity; this result holds stable regardless of level of

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Author

Ethan Lustig

Publisher

University of Rochester

Published

2021

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction