Psychology of Music

  • Psychology of Music
    By Susan Hallam

    How does the definition of music vary between cultures? The Psychology of Music explores the important impact music has on our everyday lives, and its influence on society, groups and individual people.

  • Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance
    By Rom Harré, Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher

    ... bringing to mind PhillipsSilver and Trainor's (2005) study (from chapter 8) on the connection between 'beat' experienced as body movement and auditory perception of rhythmic structure. Hand gestures (Curwen hand signs) are used to ...

  • Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance
    By Rom Harré, Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher

    The temporal lobe of the pianist in our example will play a vital role in her ability to listen to and synchronize with the singer, as well as process auditory feedback from her piano performance. Another important lobe in the ...

  • Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance
    By Rom Harré, Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher

    Specific tonal patterns Cooke (1959) set out to show that the idea of 'music as a language capable of expressing certain very definite things' (p. xi) is not merely a fanciful notion. Proposing that the way emotion is expressed through ...

  • Psychology of Music
    By Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

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  • Psychology of Music
    By Diana Deutsch

    Comprised of 18 chapters, this book begins with a review of the classical psychoacoustical literature on tone perception, focusing on characteristics of particular relevance to music.

  • Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance
    By Rom Harré, Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher

    The only concise introduction to the subject, this thoroughly revised edition of The Psychology of Music combines a comprehensive summary with critical assessments of existing research.

  • Psychology of Music
    By Carl E. Seashore

    Standard study by founder of Seashore test. Relationship between physical phenomena of sounds and our perception of them. Music as a medium, physical acoustics, auditory apparatus, sound perception, more. Includes 88 figures.

  • Psychology of Music
    By Carl Seashore

    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

  • Psychology of Music
    By Carl Emil Seashore

    This introduction, by the developer of the Seashore test of musical ability, is a thorough survey of this field, the standard book for psychologists specializing in the area, for the school, and for interested musicologists.