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Music, thought, and feeling : understanding the psychology of music.
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ISBN: 0195377079 9780195377071 9780195140859 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Oxford university press

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Bibliogr. : p. 281-300

Music and Emotion : theory and research
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ISBN: 9780192631886 0192631888 0192631896 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,


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On Repeat : How Music Plays the Mind
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ISBN: 9780199990825 9780199990849 0199990824 0199357870 0199990859 0199990840 1306053781 9780199357871 9780199990856 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford ; New York ; Auckland ; [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

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Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory Winner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAP What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a'hook'that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an'earworm'burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition is nearly as integral to music as the notes themselves. Its centrality has been acknowledged by everyone from evolutionary biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch, who has called it a'design feature'of music, to the composer Arnold Schoenberg who admitted that'intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition.'And yet, stunningly little is actually understood about repetition and its role in music. On Repeat offers the first in-depth inquiry into music's repetitive nature, focusing not on a particular style, or body of work, but on repertoire from across time periods and cultures. Author Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis draws on a diverse array of fields including music theory, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, to look head-on at the underlying perceptual mechanisms associated with repetition. Her work sheds light on a range of issues from repetition's use as a compositional tool to its role in characterizing our behavior as listeners, and then moves beyond music to consider related implications for repetition in language, learning, and communication. Written in engaging prose, and enlivening otherwise complex concepts for the specialist and non-specialist alike, On Repeat will captivate scholars and students across numerous disciplines from music theory and history, to psychology and neuroscience-and anyone fascinated by the puzzle of repetition in music.

Music in everyday life
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ISBN: 0521622069 052162732X 0511009372 1280418826 0511489439 051105047X 051132443X 0511149158 0511171803 1107111099 9780511489433 9780511009372 9781280418822 9780511050473 9786610418824 6610418829 9780511149153 9780521622066 9780521627320 9781107111097 9780511171802 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life uses a series of ethnographic studies - an aerobics class, karaoke evenings, music therapy sessions and the use of background music in the retail sector - as well as in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and socio-linguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of personal and social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in late modern societies.

The psychology of music
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ISBN: 0122135652 0122135644 9780122135651 0080540031 9780122135644 9780080540030 Year: 1999 Volume: *1 Publisher: San Diego Academic Press

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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 a widespread basis. Second, dramatic advances in the field of neuroscience have profoundly influenced thinking about the way that music is processed in the brain. Third, collaborations between psychologists and musicians, which were evolving at the time the first edition was written, are now quite common to a large extent now speaking a common language and agreeing on basic philosophical issues. "The Psychology of Music," Second Edition has been completely revised to bring the reader the most up-to-date information, additional subject matter, and new contributors to incorporate all of these important variables. The book is intended as a comprehensive reference source for both musicians and psychologists.

Music and humanism : an essay in the aesthetics of music
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ISBN: 0198238851 9780198238850 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Musik als ... : ausgewählte Betrachtungsweisen
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ISBN: 9783700136736 3700136730 Year: 2006 Volume: 749. Bd. Heft 28 Publisher: Wien Verl. d. Österr. Akad. d. Wiss.

Music cognition
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ISBN: 0122214307 9780122214301 Year: 1986 Publisher: London Academic press

Music in the moment
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ISBN: 0801431298 9780801431296 0801474299 1501727664 Year: 1997 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press

Musical communication
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ISBN: 0198529368 019852935X 9780198529361 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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