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Listeners can easily say if a singer sounds “right” or if a music performance is “correct”. What is behind such judgment? This question can be addressed at different levels, from the molecular to the philosophical/psychological level. In this presentation, I will focus on the acoustical level (i.e., information used by the listener) and the cognitive one (i.e., processes involved in the perception of correctness). Recent findings and on-going experiments will be discussed with the objective to better understand what drives music perception.