The Psychology of Music

A Very Short Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-064015-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 175 mm, Gewicht: 124 g

Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether considering composition, performance, listening, or appreciation, the constraints and capabilities of the human mind play a formative role. The field that has emerged around this approach is known as the psychology of music.

Written in a lively and accessible manner, this volume connects the science to larger questions about music that are of interest to practicing musicians, music therapists, musicologists, and the general public alike. For example: Why can one musical performance move an audience to tears, and another compel them to dance, clap, or snap along? How does a "pump up" playlist motivate someone at the gym? And why is that top-40 song stuck in everyone's head?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of illustrations

- Acknowledgments

- 1. The art and science of music psychology

- 2. The biological origins of music

- 3. Music as language

- 4. Listening in time

- 5. The psychology of music performance

- 6. Human musicality

- 7. The appetite for music

- 8. The future of the psychology of music

- References

- Further Reading

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (2013) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory and the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. She has been a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.