Paperback. Most people in the Western world listen to music because of emotions. They want to create or experience emotions. But music is made of tones, tones are sound waves and sound waves are physics. How is it possible that physics becomes psychology, because emotions are a psychological phenomenon? When people like a certain piece of music, they usually want to listen to it again and again. Not infrequently for years and decades. What could be the reasons for this? When people like a piece of music, it is primarily the melody that they like. For most people, the melody is the face of a piece. More than anything else, it is the element of music they remember. What are the characteristics of melodies that make them to be remembered by listeners? What features of the melody could it be that ensure being liked by listeners? Based on more than 300 keywords, over 160 musical examples, and 39 charts, answers to these and many other questions are sought and offered in this book. This book is always two-in-one. By illuminating how melodies are built that enjoy great popularity, it is a book of music theory. In this way, it addresses readers who are primarily interested in the book because they themselves invent melodies. By illuminating what psychological mechanisms and physiological responses trigger the melodic operations of composers and improvisers, it is an introduction to music psychological thinking. It combines fundamental considerations from cognitive science, psychology, anthropology, and linguistics. Thus, it is addressed not only to music theorists and musicologists, but ultimately to all readers who wish to expand their knowledge of how melodies work. What are the psychological mechanisms that allow melodies to find appeal among listeners? Answers to questions like this are offered in this book in an interdisciplinary approach This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Features Of The Perception And Construction Of Melodies (Paperback)
Publisher: Emanomedia Gmbh
Publication Date: 2022
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3038360465
ISBN 13: 9783038360469
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Most people in the Western world listen to music because of emotions. They want to create or experience emotions. But music is made of tones, tones are sound waves and sound waves are physics.

How is it possible that physics becomes psychology,

because emotions are a psychological phenomenon?

When people like a certain piece of music, they usually want to listen to it again and again. Not infrequently for years and decades.

What could be the reasons for this?

When people like a piece of music, it is primarily the melody that they like. For most people, the melody is the face of a piece. More than anything else, it is the element of music they remember.

What are the characteristics of melodies that make them to be remembered by listeners?

What features of the melody could it be that ensure being liked by listeners?

Based on more than 300 keywords, over 160 musical examples, and 39 charts, answers to these and many other questions are sought and offered in this book.

This book is always two-in-one. By illuminating how melodies are built that enjoy great popularity, it is a book of music theory. In this way, it addresses readers who are primarily interested in the book because they themselves invent melodies. By illuminating what psychological mechanisms and physiological responses trigger the melodic operations of composers and improvisers, it is an introduction to music psychological thinking. It combines fundamental considerations from cognitive science, psychology, anthropology, and linguistics. Thus, it is addressed not only to music theorists and musicologists, but ultimately to all readers who wish to expand their knowledge of how melodies work.

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Peter Herborn is a composer and professor at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen. At Folkwang University he has been teaching jazz composition / arrangement, theory, ensemble and big band since 1988. As a composer he is active in various areas of modern music. On the one hand, his works range from pieces for string quartet to works for choir and electronics to orchestral contemporary opera. On the other hand, his work encompasses contemporary big band jazz as well as a program of harmonically ambitious pieces for jazz quintet or works for larger ensembles of various instrumentation. "Features of the Perception and Construction of Melodies" is his third book publication in the German and English languages. www.peterherborn.de

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