Ordoñana Martín, José AntonioLaucirica Larrinaga, Ana2018-09-052018-09-0520172041-669510.1177/2041669517705387https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/30503This work attempts to study the way higher music graduate students segment a contemporary music work, Itinerant, and to understand the influence of musical feature on segmentation. It attempts to test the theory stating that saliences contribute to organising the music surface. The 42 students listened to the work several times and, in real time, they were requested to indicate the places on the score where they perceived structural boundaries. This work is characterised by its linearity, which could hinder identification of saliences and thereby, the establishment of structural boundaries. The participants show stability in the points of segmentation chosen. The results show significant coincidences among the participants in strategic places of the work, which leads us to conclude, in line with other researches, although in a work with different characteristics, that listeners can find a structural organisation in contemporary music that could allow them to understand it.17 p.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub. com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).Atonal musicMusic cognitionMusic segmentationContemporary musicMusic educationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess