Resumo

This work presents an empirical study with listeners on the sonic aspects of melody, which is here considered as one of the fundamental elements of music. Starting from a bibliographical research, this work aimed to define which aspects compound and are common to any melodic event and, thus, to find out their relationship with its perceptual aspects. For that, Gestalt theory was here taken as a possible form to understand the automatic perceptual processing of melodic aspects. In this work an experiment was conducted, with the participation of 40 volunteers, that aimed to pinpoint some aspects of the correlation between melody, music perception and music cognition.