I am so not a music theorist, but I am going to take a stab here and say that yes, there's an objective reason. I base this on the fact that, as I mentioned, I am not a music theorist and couldn't tell you what intervals I'm singing if my life depended on it, but I am a DAMN good sight-reader. I mentioned this to the music teachers at school a few years ago and was told that you can either read via intervals or harmonically, and that I probably do the latter since I'm obviously not doing the former. I don't remember what they said beyond that, but I have noticed that there are just harmonies that we expect--I can hear a symphony for the first time and know that certain chords are going to go in certain directions because no other options seem possible (and then there's Schöenberg, which is a whole other conversation).
Which means that all of this is a completely ill-informed and speculative answer to your question which probably isn't very useful at all...
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Date: 2010-10-18 12:32 am (UTC)Which means that all of this is a completely ill-informed and speculative answer to your question which probably isn't very useful at all...