The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music

ISBN-13: 9780198521280 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 300 str.

John A. Sloboda

Opis

In this survey of our current knowledge concerning the cognitive psychology of music, the author--a psychologist and practicing musician--examines the mental processes involved in composing, performing, listening to, and "understanding" music, and shows how such skills are acquired.

Recenzje

as a vastly influential sourcebook ... even entirely non-academic music lovers should find plenty to interest them in Sloboda's lucid surveys of research into the ways performers read, master and memorise music, the way it is improvised and composed, how we hear and grasp it, what part it plays in personal development and, more broadly, in society and culture as a whole.

Spis treści

Music as a cognitive skill; Music, language and meaning; The performance of music; Composition and improvisation; Listening to music; Musical learning and development; The musical mind in context: culture and biology; References; Indexes.