  Chordal Quality  Dear List,  in ear-training programs, music
students are often called upon to identify the quality of
individual chords, e.g., minor, major, diminished or augmented
with plain triads, and major-minor7, minor-minor7 etc. for
seventh chords.  Does anybody know any perceptual research that
examines the psychological distance between these chord types?
I would be interested in either confusion matrices, measures of
consonance/dissonance, multidimensional scaling studies, or
anything else that might even be tangentially connected.  Thanks
in advance for any responses.  I'll summarize them in a week or
so.   Matthew Royal  Dr. Matthew Royal Adjunct Assistant
Professor Dept. of Theory and Composition Faculty of Music
University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
Phone: (519) 661-2111 Ext. 85198 Fax: (519) 661-3531 E-mail:
mroyal@julian.uwo.ca