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  • The Perception of Music

    by Robert Frances, W. Jay Dowling ...
    This translation of this classic text contains a balance of cultural and biological considerations. While arguing for the strong influence of exposure and of formal training on the way that music is perceived, Frances draws on the literature concerning the amusias to illustrate his points about the types of cognitive abstraction that are performed by the listener. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Psychology and Music

    The Understanding of Melody and Rhythm

    Edited by W. Jay Dowling, Thomas J. Tighe ...
    This book deals with the complex cognitive processes involved in understanding two "horizontal" aspects of music perception, melody and rhythm, both separately and together. Focusing on the tonal framework for pitch material in melodies, the first section provides evidence that mere exposure to music organized in a particular way is sufficient to induce the auditory system to prepare itself to ... Read more

    $73.99 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

    $25.69 USD

  • The Hidden Sense

    Synesthesia in Art and Science

    by Cretien Van Campen ...
    Series series Leonardo
    The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature.What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or ... Read more

    $28.99 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

    $62.09 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $79.99 USD

  • Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

    Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

    by Robert S. Hatten ...
    "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Foundations of Musical Grammar

    by Lawrence M. Zbikowski ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Lawrence M. Zbikowski puts forward Foundations of Musical Grammar, an ambitious and broadly encompassing ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Psychology of Music

    by Carl E. Seashore ...
    The psychology of music aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and musical experience. A must read for all fans of music as a complete experience and science. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tonality and Transformation

    by Steven Rings ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with familiar tonal qualities to sensations of directedness and attraction. In the process, Rings introduces a host of new ... Read more

    $40.49 USD