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  • Perception and Cognition of Music

    The Sorbonne Lectures

    by Stephen McAdams ...
    Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures presents revised and updated materials delivered in four distinguished lectures at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and the Université de Montréal, originally published in French. The book bridges the fields of music psychology, music theory, and music analysis by way of a consideration of several aspects of music listening through the lens ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Form and Method: Composing Music

    The Rothschild Essays

    by Roger Reynolds ...
    Series series Contemporary Music Studies
    First Published in 2007. This volume is a collection of a series of six illustrated lectures that demonstrate a picture of the author’s evolved thinking about the composing of music: both from a more general, overall perspective and from that of the particular moment-to-moment decision making that, gradually accumulating, brings a whole into being. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition

    Edited by Kai Siedenburg, Charalampos Saitis, Stephen McAdams, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Roughly defined as any property other than pitch, duration, and loudness that allows two sounds to be distinguished, timbre is a foundational aspect of hearing. The remarkable ability of humans to recognize sound sources and events (e.g., glass breaking, a friend’s voice, a tone from a piano) stems primarily from a capacity to perceive and process differences in the timbre of sounds. Timbre raises ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • The Secret Lives

    by Sans. PRESS Team, Philip Berry, Georgia Dodsworth, Issy Flower, Srijani Ganguly, Anita Goveas, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Camila Loricchio, Rhona McAdam, Thomas Mozden, Stephen Schwei, Eoin Smith, Sarah Smith, David Wasserman, Allison Whittenberg, Claire J. Yaxley ...
    The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered...), ranging from the fantastical and mysterious to the little hidden truths of our every day life.With collaborations by Philip Berry, Georgia Dodsworth ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • This Is Your Brain on Music

    The Science of a Human Obsession

    by Daniel J. Levitin ...
    In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    by Philip Ball ...
    From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Music, Language, and the Brain

    by Aniruddh D. Patel ...
    In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time, the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently, scientific research on this ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Classical Form

    A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

    by William E. Caplin ...
    Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Emotion and Meaning in Music

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, Journal of Music Theory"This is the best study of its kind to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    How Music Plays the Mind

    by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ...
    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 incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • The Science and Psychology of Music Performance : Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

    Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

    by Richard Parncutt;Gary McPherson ...
    What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading memorization and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music Performance ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Brain and Music

    by Stefan Koelsch ...
    A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brainCovers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotionIncludes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for expertsOffers the most empirical ... Read more

    $43.00 USD