London: Vintage Books, 2011. — 463 p. Prelude: The harmonious universe. Overture: Why we sing. Staccato: The atoms of music. Andante: What's in a tune? Legato: Keeping it together. Tutti: All together now. Con moto: Slave to the rhythm. Pizzicato: The color of music. Misterioso: All in the mind. Appassionatio: Light my fire. Capriccioso: Going in and out of style. Parlando: Why...
Amsterdam: Psychology Press, 1997. - 519 p. This text comprises of reviews of work relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computational, to the musicological. The reviews were selected from papers submitted at the Third International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition Liege 1994 to illustrate the wide range of...
N.-Y.: Academic Press, 1998. - 807 p. 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...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 270 p. Sandra Garrido is a researcher in music psychology, a pianist and violinist and the mother of two small boys. After completing her Ph.D., she spent several years in research at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She is currently a Dementia Research...
2nd ed. — Oxford University Press, 2016. — 960 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN10: 019872294X. — ISBN13: 978-0198722946. The 2nd edition of the Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of...
New York: Routledge, 2011. — 464 p. All human societies in every corner of the globe engage in music. For many, it occupies a primary role. Taken collectively, these musical experiences are widely varied, hugely complex affairs. How did human beings come to be musical creatures? How and why do our bodies respond to music? Why do people have emotional responses to music? This...
MIT Press, 2018. — 392 p. — ISBN: 978-0262037457. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves "unmusical." This volume offers interdisciplinary...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. - 224 p. What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. — 184 p. — ISBN: 978-1442271524. Music performance anxiety has long frustrated the artistic community and, while tricks and folk remedies abound, a comprehensive plan to solve this problem has remained elusive. Accomplished violinist Casey McGrath combines her experiences with the research of Karin S. Hendricks and Tawnya D. Smith to provide a...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). (ISBN13: 978-0-19-512375-3 ISBN10: 0-19-512375-1, Hard cover, 528 p. (scanned book) The book starts by reminding us that the interest in music-language relations is over 2000 years old (going back to Plato) and has now led cognitive scientists to ask how the brain deals with these two domains: Are cognitive and neural correlates...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2017. — 340 p. Polyphony -- the interweaving of simultaneous sounds -- is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for how we understand the mind. In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of "polyphonicity" -- of "many-voicedness" -- in human experience. Pesic presents the emergence of Western polyphony, its...
Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, 2007. — 114 S. Durch Übungen der Vorstellung und Wahrnehmung wird Ihnen die Möglichkeit gegeben, einen neuen, ganz individuellen Zugang zur Musik zu finden. Ziel ist es, das Buch zu leben, da alles Geschriebene nur Vorschläge sein können, um etwas Neues zu erleben und Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Inhalt Die Idee des Buches Einführung Der Baum und...
Psychology Press, 2004. — 189 p. Why and how do music and abstract art pack such universal appeal? Why do they often have 'therapeutic' efficacy? Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand some of the reasons behind music's ubiquity and power. Drawing on new psychoanalytic...
Knopf, 2007. — 381 p. With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls musical misalignments. Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a...
New York: Springer, 2015. — 341 p. The present book proposes a systematic understanding about the conditions, mechanisms, influences, and processes evolving into a creative behavior in music, based on interdisciplinary perspectives of the cognitive sciences. In his research study, Sebastian Schmidt focuses on so-called musical extrapolations’ processes which bring the elusive...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. — 291 p. In this comprehensive survey of the experimental literature on the cognitive psychology of music, Professor Sloboda, a psychologist and practicing musician, and "understands" music and shows how such skills are acquired. "A break-through...brings together recent work in a way that demonstrates its significance for musicians,...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 2481 p. — (Oxford Library of Psychology). — ISBN: 978 – 0 – 19 – 252613 – 7. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain is a groundbreaking compendium of current research on music in the human brain. It brings together an international roster of 54 authors from 13 countries providing an essential guide to this rapidly growing field. The major...
Oxford Library of Psychology, 2019. — 848 p. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain is a groundbreaking compendium of current research on music in the human brain. It brings together an international roster of 54 authors from 13 countries providing an essential guide to this rapidly growing field.
Scientific American Educational Publishing, 2023. — 178 p. Research suggests that almost every region of the brain is affected when you listen to music. It has a profound impact on emotional response, cognition, sensory experience, and motor function. This volume considers the role of brain anatomy and neuroscience in music, music's role in social and emotional connection, and...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 369 p. Perception. Early Sound Processing: The Auditory Cortex, Its Inputs, and Functions. Communicating Between Auditory Regions and the Rest of the Brain: The Ventral Stream. Communicating Between Auditory Regions and the Rest of the Brain: The Dorsal Stream. Hemispheric Specialization: Two Brains Are Better Than One. Pleasure. The Reward...
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