Figure 2. Adult listeners heard the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata in Eb, K. 282. They adjusted a control to indicate the amount of musical tension. The top graph shows the tension judgments. Musicians and nonmusicians produced similar patterns. Comparison with the tree structure at the top shows tension peaks at the ends of large-scale sections. Comparison with the bottom graph shows a correlation between tension and slower tempos.

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