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The aim of the psychology of music is to understand musical phoneomena in terms of mental functions--to characterize the ways in which one perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music. Since the First Edition of The Psychology of Music was published the field has emerged from an interdisciplina...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | San Diego : |
| Publication Dates: | 1999. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Academic Press series in cognition and perception
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780122135644 |
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The aim of the psychology of music is to understand musical phoneomena in terms of mental functions--to characterize the ways in which one perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music. Since the First Edition of The Psychology of Music was 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 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 807 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780122135644 0122135644 |
| Index Number: | ML3830 |
| CLC: | J60-05 |
| Contents: |
J.R. Pierce, The Nature of Musical Sound. -- M.R. Schroede, Concert Halls: From Magic to Number Theory. -- N.M. Weinberger, Music and the Auditory System. -- R. Rasch and R. Plomp, The Perception of Musical Tones. -- J.C. Risset and D.L. Wessel, Exploration of Timbre by Analysis and Synthesis. -- J. Sundberg, The Perception of Singing. -- E.M. Burns, Intervals, Scales, and Tuning. -- W.D. Ward, Absolute Pitch. -- D. Deutsch, Grouping Mechanisms in Music. -- D. Deutsch, Processing of Pitch Combinations. -- J.J. Bharucha, Neural Nets, Temporal Composites and Tonality. -- E. Narmour, Hierarchic The nature of musical sound / John R. Pierce -- Concert halls: from magic to number theory / Manfred R. Schroeder -- Music and the auditory system / Norman M. Weinberger -- The perception of musical tones / Rudolf Rasch and Reinier Plomp -- Exploration of timbre by analysis and synthesis / Jean-Claude Risset and David L. Wessel -- The perception of singing / Johan Sundberg -- Intervals, scales, and tuning / Edward M. Burns -- Absolute pitch / W. Dixon Ward -- Grouping mechanisms in music / Diana Deutsch -- The processing of pitch combinations / Diana Deutsch -- Neural nets, temporal composit |