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Aesthetic success in classical music: A computer analysis of 1935 compositions.
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Dean Keith Simonton, 1986, 4:1, 1-17.
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To further elucidate the basis of aesthetic success in classical music, data on 8992 themes were aggregated into 1935 compositions by 172 composers from the Renaissance to the present day. Aesthetic success was gauged via compositional popularity and ratings of aesthetic significance and audience accessibility, while aesthetic attributes were assessed by melodic originality and originality variation as determined by a computer content analysis of melodic structure. The results demonstrate that the probability of a work being performed and recorded is a function of aesthetic attributes and melodic content, with direct and indirect effects of artistic, biographical, and historical conditions. Aesthetic taste is thus not arbitrary but lawful, for it is grounded in the intrinsic qualities of a piece which in turn reflect the state of the composer at the time of composition.
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Symmetry analysis of Yorok, Karok, and Hupa Indian basket designs.
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Dorothy K. Washburn, 1986, 4:1, 19-45
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A classification of patterned design on Yurok, Karok, and Hupa baskets by the crystallographic symmetry classes which structure the design elements reveals that traditional designs, designated as "ours" by Yurok, Karok, and Hupa informants were recognized by those informants as "put together right" when they were consistently structured by two symmetries, pl l2 and pma2. Baskets said to be "not ours" were judged as "against the law" because, although they were also frequently structured by the two traditional symmetries, they were distinguishable by the addition of new colors and motifs. Ironically, despite the increasing breakup of California Indian society by white culture, turn-of-the-century white collector demand for "authentic" baskets served to preserve the structure of the traditional design system. Collector demand enabled the Indians to make a living producing baskets, but these were only traditional in some aspects (structure) while other aspects were altered so that the "sale" baskets would be clearly distinct from those they made for their own use.
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A dynamic spatial analysis of changes in aesthetic responses.
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Morris B. Holbrook, Eric A. Greenleaf, & Robert M. Schindler, 1986, 4:1, 47-61.
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Models of evaluative judgment in applied aesthetics generally assume that movements of objects' positions in a multidimensional perceptual space will produce corresponding changes in preferences. however, such spatial representations have usually been tested using static designs or, at best, longitudinal studies that fail to tie perceptual movements to shifts in affective response. This study reports what we believe to be a first dynamic analysis of changes in aesthetic responses. Specifically, twenty-nine aesthetically naive subjects supplied perceptual and affective ratings of twenty art prints on four occasions spaced a week apart. Multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) of the perception data created an MDA space representing each person's perceptions of each print at the beginning and end of the period. We then constructed each individual's preference function based on the MDA space, used beginning and ending perceived positions to compute changes in that preference function, regarded these as predictions of changes in actual affect, and correlated predicted with actual affective shifts to obtain a validity assessment of about rē = .25 for our dynamic spatial analysis of trends in tastes.
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Commercial influences in popular literature: An empirical study of brand name usage in American and British hit plays in the postwar era.
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Monroe Friedman, 1986, 4:1, 63-77.
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This article examines the impact of commercial practices on popular American and British literature by analyzing the usage made since World War II of brand names and generic names in tho scripts of a selected set of hit plays performed on the New York stage and the London stage. Taken together with the results of an earlier study on popular American novels, the findings lend support to the charges of increasing commercial influence in the popular literature of the postwar era. The findings also underscore the significance of earlier conceptualizations such as "word-of-author advertising" as well as commercial and noncommercial forms of materialism.
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Expectations and processes in reading poetic narratives.
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Eugene R. Kintgen, 1986, 4:1, 79-95.
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Taking up Robert Brooke's suggestion that a model of reading must describe the processes readers use, I examine the expectations and actual reading experiences of two readers reading Swinburne's "A Ballad of Dreamland." After describing in some detail how the readers mediate among often conflicting expectations to arrive at a plausible interpretation of the poem, I consider the relevance of this orientation-focusing on process rather than on either product or expectations - for research into how readers understand narratives.
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