Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher, Rom Harré

Psychology of Music (eBook, ePUB)

From Sound to Significance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The only concise introduction to the subject, this thoroughly revised edition of The Psychology of Music combines a comprehensive summary with critical assessments of existing research. The text will be invaluable to students in the area and anyone else interested in the psychology of music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317299769
• Artikelnr.: 50138774

Autorenporträt

Dr. Siu-Lan Tan is A.B Stone Professor of Psychology at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, USA. She completed degrees in Music at Pacific Union College, graduate studies at Oxford University, and a PhD in Psychology at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on musical form, music notation, and film music, and she plays piano. She is primary editor of The Psychology of Music in Multimedia, and appears in Score: A Film Music Documentary.

Peter Pfordresher is Professor of Psychology at SUNY Buffalo in New York State, USA. He completed his PhD in Psychology at the Ohio State University. His research on the relationship between perception and action in music has been published in psychology, music cognition, and music education journals, and has received support from the National Science Foundation. He sings and plays piano, guitar, and the trumpet.

Rom Harré is Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University, UK. He was Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, and Director of the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

About the authors Preface to the second edition Notes to instructors
Acknowledgments 1. The scope of psychology of music Part I. Foundations 2.
The acoustics of music 3. Auditory perception and the neurophysiology of
hearing 4. Cognitive neuroscience and the music-language link Part II. The
perception and cognition of music 5. Perception of musical pitch and melody
6. Perception of musical time 7. Analysis and cognition of musical
structure Part III. Development, learning, and performance 8. Emergence of
auditory and music perception 9. Early musical development 10. Practice and
musical expertise 11. The psychology of music performance Part IV. The
meaning and significance of music 12. The social psychology of music 13.
The question of meaning in music 14. The emotional power of music 15.
Culture and music. Appendix: The chapters in action. References. Name
index. Subject index.