Research Article
[Retracted] The Application of the Gestalt Theory in Music Psychotherapy for Piano
Table 2
List of basic terms in the analysis method [
36] (reproduced by Hoeschele et al., under the creative commons (attribution license/public domain)).
| No. | Term | Definition |
| 1 | Beat | The underlying pulse, or unit of time, in music | 2 | Entrainment | The ability to perceive a beat in music and align bodily movement with it | 3 | Melody | A sequence of tones defined by its pitch patterning and rhythm | 4 | Meter | The recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in music | 5 | Musicality | The capacity that underlies the human ability to perceive, appreciate, and reduce music | 6 | Pitch | A perceptual attribute related to the fundamental frequency that enables comparisons of sounds as higher or lower | 7 | Prosody | Rhythm, loudness, pitch, and tempo of speech | 8 | Rhythm | A nonrandom repetitive temporal auditory pattern |
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