Familiarity underpins our engagement with music. This book highlights theoretical and empirical considerations about familiarity from three perspectives: listening, musicology and performance. Part I, Listening, addresses familiarity as it relates to listeners behaviour and responses to music, specifically in regulating our choice and exposure to music on a daily basis; how we get to know music through regular listening; how comfortable we feel in a Western concert environment; and music s efficacy as a pain-reliever. Part II, Musicology exposes the notion of familiarity from varied stances,...