The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780190640156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str.

Elizabeth Hellmuth (Professor and Director of the Music Cogn

Opis

The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction seeks to answer fundamental questions of enduring interest, such as "What is musicality?" and "How does music move us?" In doing so, it reveals what happens when science attempts to confront some of the deepest questions about music.

Recenzje

[The Psychology of Music] is a vivid account of a theoretically intricate field, rich in pertinent examples. Margulis's excellent survey may be read as an invitation to be more open to other fields of investigation and disciplines that approach the field of musicology. Psychology of Music

O autorze

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (2013) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory and the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. She has been a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.