S1-Stimuli for the dissertation "Memory for Melody: Investigating the link between experience, perception, and memory formation"

This data set contains the online supplement to Steffen A. Herff’s study ‘Memory for Melody: Investigating the link between experience, perception, and memory formation’, a dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It contains the stimuli used in 10 experiments in the forms of midi and wav files of melodies in different tuning systems, as well as musical feature analyses of the stimuli. Experiments 1 and 2 used melodies composed by Steffen Herff. Experiment 3 and 4 used a corpus of European folk songs. Experiment 5 and 6 used melodies in a microtonal tuning system developed by Steffen Herff. Experiments 7 to 10 used sound sequences developed by Jon Prince.