Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
In the previous studies about the goodness of the tempo of the music, relations of the music known, the relations with the heart rate, influence of the speed of the tempo itself have been investigated. However, there is a little study considered about the relations with contents of the music. In this report, three music which have different tempo were selected for the test, and those tempi were changed into 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, 115% of each original tempo. The goodness of these tempi was evaluated for these musical excerpts. As a result, for slow music (Lento ma non troppo), there was not the influence of the increase and decrease of the tempo, and for the intermediate tempo music (Allegretto), the rating value was the highest at an increase of 5% in the original tempo. For the fast music (presto), the rating value had step like function features such as the value was high at equal or more than the original tempo than the lower one. This result indicates that the tempo of the music had different properties on tempo preference.
