Bottom-up principles of melodic implication (Narmour, 1990) were evaluated in a melodycompletion task. One hundred subjects (50 low training; 50 high training in music) were presented each of eight melodic intervals. For each interval, the subjects were asked to compose a short melody on a piano keyboard, treating the interval provided as the first two notes of the melody. For each melody, the first response-the note immediately following the initial interval-was analyzed. Multinomiallog linear

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... analyses were conducted to assess the extent to which responses could be predicted by Narmour's (1990 Narmour's ( ,1992 bottom-up principles. Support was found for all of Narmour's principles, and two additional predictors based on implied tonal structure. Responses of low-and high-training groups were similar. 1069