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Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2001
ISBN
0195148363, 9780195148367, 019505475X, 9780195054750
LCC
ML3830 .K76 1990
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18382165 bytes)
Series
Oxford Psychology Series
Pages
318\318
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

This book addresses the central problem of music cognition: how listeners' responses move beyond mere registration of auditory events to include the organization, interpretation, and remembrance of these events in terms of their function in a musical context of pitch and rhythm. Equally important, the work offers an analysis of the relationship between the psychological organization of music and its internal structure. Combining over a decade of original research on music cognition with an overview of the available literature, the work will be of interest to cognitive and physiological psychologists, psychobiologists, musicians, music researchers, and music educators. The author provides the necessary background in experimental methodology and music theory so that no specialized knowledge is required for following her major arguments.

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