Henkjan Honing

Music Cognition: The Basics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Music Cognition: The Basics considers the role of our cognitive functions, such as perception, memory, attention, and expectation in perceiving, making, and appreciating music.

In this volume, Henkjan Honing explores the active role these functions play in how music makes us feel; exhilarated, soothed, or inspired. Grounded in the latest research in areas of psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience, and with clear examples throughout, this book concentrates on underappreciated musical skills such as sense of rhythm, beat induction, and relative pitch, that make people intrinsically musical creatures-supporting the conviction that all humans have a unique, instinctive attraction to music.

The scope of the topics discussed ranges from the ability of newborns to perceive a beat, to the unexpected musical expertise of ordinary listeners. It is a must read for anyone studying the psychology of music, auditory perception, or simply interested in why we enjoy music the way we do.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000451566
• Artikelnr.: 62471634

Autorenporträt

Henkjan Honing is professor of Music Cognition at both the faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam and member elect of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: De do do do, de da da da The tone of speech and music 1. First
Listening Experiences 2. The Illiterate Listener Part 2: Ooh-ooh-ooh The
Magic of Music 3. Music as Mystery 4. Music as Language 5. Music as Sound
Part 3: Hmmm . . . Music and Musicality 6. We're Musical Creatures 7.
Measuring the Beat 8. Do You Recognize this Melody? Part 4: Tá-ta-ta-tá-ta
Music as Cognition 9. The Secret of the "Loud Rest" 10. The Secret of the
Details 11. The Secret, Mapped Out Part 5: Aha! Music in Our Minds 12.
The Musical Listener 13. Listening and Learning 14. Encore