David Huron
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Sep 7, 2026
Mark BaynesGUEST
He will choose notes which are outside the harmony.
Mark BaynesGUEST
And he does that to create what David Huron coined as contrastive valance.
Mark BaynesGUEST
In other words, he'll do it with the touch that he needs to do it at.
Mark BaynesGUEST
Often it can be real delicate, but still have those biting notes.
Ted ZornGUEST
Because the pattern has become familiar, I notice the change.
Ted ZornGUEST
Another music theorist, David Huron, has written about the role of expectation in music.
Ted ZornGUEST
His basic idea is very simple.
Ted ZornGUEST
As we listen, we are continually anticipating what might happen next, and we can experience pleasure from both recognition and surprise.
Ted ZornHOST
Because the pattern has become familiar, I notice the change.
Ted ZornHOST
Another music theorist, David Huron, has written about the role of expectation in music.
Ted ZornHOST
His basic idea is very simple.
Ted ZornHOST
As we listen, we are continually anticipating what might happen next, and we can experience pleasure from both recognition and surprise.
speaker_1HOST
Well, we are getting into the mechanics of that filter today.
speaker_1HOST
We've got this brilliant academic review by researcher Catherine J. Stevens.
speaker_1HOST
She essentially synthesized a decade of cross-cultural research on music perception and cognition.
speaker_1HOST
And we are distilling that massive stack of research down for you today in this deep dive.
speaker_2HOST
A memory experiment.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
So researchers brought in listeners and played them sequences of tones.
speaker_1HOST
Some were familiar Western major scale, so just the standard do-re-mi that we all know.
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This isn't a figure of speech.
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it's literally happening in your nervous system right now as this plays music doesn't grab us because it's beautiful that explanation is too easy and it explains nothing music grabs us because the brain is constantly playing one game predicting what comes next and feeling a hit of pleasure the instant that prediction either lands exactly or gets bent just slightly out of shape not violently not a shock just a hair off American musicologist and cognitive scientist David Huron mapped this out as five psychophysiological stages the brain runs through for any expected musical event.
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the brain starts sketching what's about to happen.
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the moment draws closer.