Psychology of Music

Name: Psychology of Music
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ISBN: 9780122135620

ISBN-10: 0122135628

ISBN-13: 9780122135620

Edition: 1982

Authors: Diana Deutsch

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The aim of the psychology of music is to understand musical phoneomena in terms of mental functions--to characterize the ways in which one perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music. Since the First Edition of The Psychology of Music was published the field has emerged from an interdisciplinary curiosity into a fully ramified subdiscipline of psychology due to several factors. The opportunity to generate, analyze, and transform sounds by computer is no longer limited to a few researchers with access to large multi-user facilities, but rather is available to individual investigators on a widespread basis. Second, dramatic advances in the field of neuroscience have profoundly…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 1/28/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 542
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long
Language: English

Contributors
Preface
The Nature of Musical Sound
Concert Halls: From Magic to Number Theory
Music and the Auditory System
The Perception of Musical Tones
Exploration of Timbre by Analysis and Synthesis
The Perception of Singing
Intervals, Scales, and Tuning
Absolute Pitch
Grouping Mechanisms in Music
The Processing of Pitch Combinations
Neural Nets, Temporal Composites, and Tonality
Hierarchical Expectation and Musical Style
Rhythm and Timing in Music
The Performance of Music
The Development of Music Perception and Cognition
Musical Ability
Neurological Aspects of Music Perception and Performance
Comparative Music Perception and Cognition
Index
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