Krumhansl, Carol

Carol Lynne Krumhansl is Professor of Psychology and a member of the graduate fields of Music and Cognitive Science at Cornell University. The Music Cognition Laboratory, founded in 1980, has studied a wide range of topics. The experiments on tonality, pitch, and harmony helped establish the psychological reality of music-theoretic concepts. Contemporary proposals on melodic structure and musical tension have been tested and extended to music from other cultures and post-tonal music