The Musical Mind

Author: John A. Sloboda
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
What are the mental processes involved in listening to, performing, and composing music? What is involved in "understanding" a piece of music? How are such skills acquired? Questions such as these form the basis of the cognitive psychology of music. The author addresses these questions by surveying the growing experimental literature on the subject. The author does not simply review existing research, but takes a critical look at what has been achieved in the subject, introducing such topics as composition and musical skill in non-literate cultures. He draws freely on his own knowledge and experience as a practicing musician as well as a psychologist to provide an overview that is scholarly and also accessible to the general reader. -- From publisher's description.

Discovering the Musical Mind

Author: Jeanne Bamberger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199589836
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
Following her distinguished earlier career as a concert pianist and later as a music theorist, Jeanne Bamberger conducted countless case studies analysing musical development and creativity within the classroom environment. 'Discovering the musical mind' draws together these classic studies, and offers the chance to revisit and reconsider some of the conclusions she drew at the time.

Exploring the Musical Mind

Author: John Sloboda
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198530138
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
Brings together in one volume important material from various hard-to-locate sources, giving the reader access to a body of work from one of the founders of music psychology Complements and updates Sloboda's 'The musical mind'

MUSIC AND THE MIND

Author: Anthony Storr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501122096
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.

The Mind Behind the Musical Ear

Author: Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674576063
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Bamberger focuses on the earliest stages in the development of musical cognition. Beginning with children's invention of original rhythm notations, she follows eight-year-old Jeff as he reconstructs and invents descriptions of simple melodies.

Music, Mind, and Brain

Author: Manfred Clynes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468489178
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
There is much music in our lives -yet we know little about its function. Music is one of man's most remarkable inventions - though possibly it may not be his invention at all: like his capacity for language his capacity for music may be a naturally evolved biologic .function. All cultures and societies have music. Music differs from the sounds of speech and from other sounds, but only now do we find ourselves at the threshold of being able to find out how our brain processes musical sounds differently from other sounds. We are going through an exciting time when these questions and the question of how music moves us are being seriously investigated for the first time from the perspective of the co-ordinated functioning of the organism: the perspective of brain function, motor function as well as perception and experience. There is so much we do not yet know. But the roads to that knowledge are being opened, and the coming years are likely to see much progress towards providing answers and raising new questions. These questions are different from those music theorists have asked themselves: they deal not with the structure of a musical score (although that knowledge is important and necessary) but with music in the flesh: music not outside of man to be looked at from written symbols, but music-man as a living entity or system.

The Musical Mind

Author: John A. Sloboda
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

On Repeat

Author: Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199990824
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
On Repeat offers an in-depth inquiry into music's repetitive nature. Drawing on a diverse array of fields, it 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 considers related implications for repetition in language, learning, and communication.

Music of the Mind

Author: Darryl Reanney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780285632516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Blending exciting scientific concepts with an Eastern sense of destiny, this book takes the reader on a journey into consciousness and provides convincing answers to unanswerable questions about life, death, and beyond. At the instant of creation, the universe possessed an absolute unity and symmetry it has not experienced since, and all matter carries a memory of that perfection and yearns to recover it. We are part of this deep cosmic consciousness, from life to death, and into an afterlife that is as essential to our being as the physical life we leave behind. Embracing science, philosophy, mysticism, and religion, this view opens our eyes to the meaning of existence and clarifies our role in the vastness of creation.

The Improvising Mind

Author: Aaron Berkowitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199590958
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
The ability to improvise represents one of the highest levels of musical achievement. Yet what musical knowledge is 3equired for improvisation? How does a musician learn to improvise? What are the neural correlates of improvised performance? These are some of the questions explored in this unique and fascinating new book.