Psychology of Music (Cognition and Perception) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0122135644 ISBN 13: 9780122135644

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 2000

Synopsis

This text covers topics such as concert halls, from magic to number theory; music and the auditory system; the perception of musical tones and singing; intervals, scales and tuning; absolute pitch; grouping mechanisms in music; processing of pitch combinations; neural nets, temporal composites and tonality; hierarchical expectation and musical style; rhythm and timing in music; music performance; the musical ability; neurological aspects of music perception and performance; and comparative music perception and cognition.

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Review:

"Chapter titles show continuing interest in many of the traditional topics--rhythm, melody, scales, musical ability, the nature of sound--and also in newer areas of inquiry, e.g., the neuropsychological study of musical perception. The editor has succeeded admirably in making this edition a valuable and timely resource for musicians and psychologists at the upper-division undergraduate level and above."--CHOICE, reviewed by W. M. Bigham, Emeritus, Morehead State University, March 1999

From the Back Cover:

The aim of the psychology of music is to understand musical phenomena in terms of mental functions—-to characterize the ways in which one perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music. Since publication of the first edition of The Psychology of Music, the field has emerged from an interdisciplinary curiosity into a fully ramified subdiscipline of psychology as a result of several factors. First, 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 is now available to individual investigators on a widespread basis. Second, dramatic advances in the field of neuroscience have profoundly influenced thinking about the way that music is processed in the brain. Third, collaborations between psychologists and musicians, which were evolving at the time the first edition was written, are now quite common, and to a large extent these two groups speak a common language and agree on basic philosophical issues.
The Psychology of Music, Second Edition has been completely revised to bring the reader the most up-to-date information and additional subject matter, and new contributions examine all of these important developments. The book is intended as a comprehensive reference source for musicians, psychologists, and students interested in and studying this exciting psychological discipline.|The aim of the psychology of music is to understand musical phenomena in terms of mental functions—-to characterize the ways in which one perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music. Since publication of the first edition ofThe Psychology of Music, the field has emerged from an interdisciplinary curiosity into a fully ramified subdiscipline of psychology as a result of several factors. First, 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 is now available to individual investigators on a widespread basis. Second, dramatic advances in the field of neuroscience have profoundly influenced thinking about the way that music is processed in the brain. Third, collaborations between psychologists and musicians, which were evolving at the time the first edition was written, are now quite common, and to a large extent these two groups speak a common language and agree on basic philosophical issues.
The Psychology of Music, Second Edition has been completely revised to bring the reader the most up-to-date information and additional subject matter, and new contributions examine all of these important developments. The book is intended as a comprehensive reference source for musicians, psychologists, and students interested in and studying this exciting psychological discipline.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0122135644
• ISBN 13: 9780122135644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 807
• Editor: Deutsch Diana