Philip Baczewski

University of North Texas | UNT

This article reports findings from two experiments examining strategies utilized by professional musicians who transcribed a Mozart duet, wherein we explored the possibility that their cognitive processes would be revealed through their transcription strategies on multiple sequential presentations of the same stimulus. We hypothesized that transcri...

This study examines whether melodic character or voice position is a more influential factor in professional musicians' perception of a two?voice musical structure. A previous study [P. Baczewski and R. N. Killam, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Suppl. 1 86, S17 (1989)] examined 15 highly trained listeners' response to a stimulus consisting of a 16?measure pie...

This study examined 15 highly trained listeners' response to a stimulus consisting of a 16‐measure piece of music. Subjects were music performance graduate teaching fellows. They were presented with a taped performance (prepared by professional musicians) of three repetitions of a Mozart duet, together with the experiment's instructions....