The Psychology of Music

Informationen zum Autor Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California! San Diego! and conducts research on perception and memory for sounds! particularly music. She has discovered a number of musical illusions and paradoxes! which include the octave illusion! the scale illusion! the glissando illusion! the tritone paradox! the cambiata illusion! the phantom words illusion and the speech-to-song illusion! among others. She also explores ways in which we hold musical information in memory! and in which we relate the sounds of music and speech to each other. Much of her current research focuses on the question of absolute pitch - why some people possess it! and why it is so rare. Deutsch has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! the Acoustical Society of America! the Audio Engineering Society! the Society of Experimental Psychologists! the American Psychological Society! and the American Psychological Association. She has served as Governor of the Audio Engineering Society! as Chair of the Section on Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! as President of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics! Creativity and the Arts)! and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She is Founding Editor of the journal Music Perception! and served as Founding President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. She was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts by the American Psychological Association in 2004! the Gustav Theodor Fechner Award for Outstanding Contributions to Empirical Aesthetics by the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in 2008! and the Science Writing Award for Professionals in Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America in 2011. Klappentext The aim of The Psychology of Music is to understand musical phenomena in terms of mental functions--to characterize the ways in which one perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music. Since The Psychology of Music was first published, the field has emerged from an interdisciplinary curiosity into a fully ramified subdiscipline of psychology due to several factors. The opportunity to generate, analyze, and transform sounds by computer is no longer limited to a few researchers with access to large multi-user facilities, but rather is available to individual investigators on a widespread basis. Second, dramatic advances in the field of neuroscience have profoundly influenced thinking about the way that music is processed in the brain. Third, collaborations between psychologists and musicians, which were evolving at the time the book was first written, are now quite common; to a large extent now speaking a common language and agreeing on basic philosophical issues. The Psychology of Music, 3e, has been completely revised to bring the reader the most up-to-date information, additional subject matter, and new contributors to incorporate all of these important variables. This newest edition is approximately 86% changed from the 2e, with three new chapters, 10 chapters by new authors, and all remaining chapters heavily revised. New chapters include Computational Models of Music Cognition and Music and Emotion. International contributors hail from the US, Canada, UK, France, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands. Zusammenfassung Helps you to understand musical phenomena in terms of mental functions - to characterize the ways in which one perceives! remembers! creates! and performs music! this book encompasses the way the brain perceives! remembers! creates! and performs music. It is designed for use as a textbook for advanced courses in psychology of music. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Perception of Musical Tones 2: Musical Timbre Perception 3: Perception of Singing 4: Intervals...

List of contents

1: The Perception of Musical Tones
2: Musical Timbre Perception
3: Perception of Singing
4: Intervals and Scales
5: Absolute Pitch
6: Grouping Mechanisms in Music
7: The Processing of Pitch Combinations
8: Computational Models of Music Cognition
9: Structure and Interpretation of Rhythm in Music
10: Music Performance: Movement and Coordination
11: Musical Development
12: Music and Cognitive Abilities
13: The Biological Foundations of Music: Insights from Congenital Amusia
14: Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training
15: Music and Emotion
16: Comparative Music Cognition: Cross-species and Cross-Cultural Studies
17: Psychologists and Musicians: Then and Now

Report

"The editor has succeeded admirably in making.a valuable and timely resource for musicians and psychologists." --CHOICE
"I have. several dozen excellent books about music perception and cognition, but none is more dog-eared or more used than the Psychology of Music. The first edition's influence on the field makes a compelling argument for the purchase of this updated and revised version, certain to be a blueprint for new research and a leading resource for many years to come." --MUSIC PERCEPTION
"The attributes of the book are thoroughness, authority and clarity. That one volume can so adeptly select, draw on, arrange, assess, amplify its material and invite the reader to draw meaningful and reliable conclusions relevant to his/her love of music is a huge achievement. That the book does so with apposite and well-adduced illustrations while at the same time blending technical and specialist accuracy with accessibility is remarkable. Thoroughness and interest, a refreshing amalgam of (the authors') enthusiasm with their collective and individual command of the literature and practices in the field(s) of each make it nothing short of superb as a reference (to be consulted) and a narrative (to be read from cover to cover) by lovers of serious music of all types." --EXCERPT BY MARK SEALEY for www.classicalnet.com

Product details

• Authors: Diana Deutsch
• Assisted by: Diana Deutsch (Editor), Deutsch Diana (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780123814609
• ISBN: 978-0-12-381460-9
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Cognition and Perception
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology