Binding: Paperback
Description: Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history for example or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition intensified in recent decades of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether considering composition performance listening or appreciation the constraints and capabilities of the human mind play a formative role. The field that has emerged around this approach is known as the psychology of music. Written in a lively and accessible manner this volume connects the science to larger questions about music that are of interest to practicing musicians music therapists musicologists and the general public alike. For example: Why can one musical performance move an audience to tears and another compel them to dance clap or snap along? How does a "pump up" playlist motivate someone at the gym? And why is that top - 40 song stuck in everyone's head?
Title: The Psychology Of Music: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Margulis Elizabeth Hellmuth (Professor And Director Of The Music Cognition Lab Professor And Director Of The Music Cognition Lab University Of Arkansas)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190640156
Pages: 160 Pages, 10
Publication Date: 11/1/2018
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: Psychology