Sweet Anticipation Music and the Psychology of Expectation

Name: Sweet Anticipation Music and the Psychology of Expectation
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ISBN: 9780262582780

ISBN-10: 0262582783

ISBN-13: 9780262582780

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Huron

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Winner, 2007 Wallace Berry Award presented by the Society for Music Theory. The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in "Sweet Anticipation" grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as those interested in music. The book describes a set of psychological mechanisms and illustrates how these mechanisms work in the case of music. All examples of notated music can be heard on the Web. Huron proposes that emotions evoked by expectation involve five functionally…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 474
Size: 7.09" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Surprise



Measuring Musical Expectation



Auditory Learning



Statistical Properties of Music



Heuristic Listening



Mental Representation of Expectation (I)



Prediction Effect



Tonality



Expectation in Time



Genres, Schemas, and Firewalls



Mental Representation of Expectation (II)



Creating Predictability



Creating Surprise



Creating Tension



Expecting the Unexpected



A Sense of Future


Notes


Glossary


References


Index