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Subject(s)

• Music—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Auditory perception [Browse]
• Music—Philosophy and aesthetics [Browse]

Related name

• Aiello, Rita [Browse]
• Sloboda, John A. [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Philosophical Perspectives. 1. Emotion and Meaning in Music / Leonard B. Meyer. 2. Music and Language: Parallels and Contrasts / Rita Aiello. 3. Perception: A Perspective from Music Theory / Nicholas Cook
• Developmental Perspectives. 4. Songsinging by Young and Old: A Developmental Approach to Music / Lyle Davidson. 5. Coming to Hear in a New Way / Jeanne Bamberger. 6. Music Performance: Expression and the Development of Excellence / John A. Sloboda
• The Perception of Melody, Tonality Rhythm and Timing. 7. Melodic Contour in Hearing and Remembering Melodies / W. Jay Dowling. 8. Describing the Mental Representation of Tonality in Music / David Butler and Helen Brown. 9. Tonality and Expectation / Jamshed J. Bharucha. 10. Perception, Production, and Imitation of Time Ratios by Skilled Musicians / Saul Sternberg and Ronald L. Knoll. 11. The Interpretive Component in Musical Performance / L. H. Shaffer and Neil P. McAngus Todd
• The Perception of Musical Compositions.
• 12. Can Listening to Music Be Experimentally Studied? / Rita Aiello.

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ISBN

• 0195064755 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0195064763 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

93028888

OCLC

28546994

RCP

C - S

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