MTH-311: Psychology of Music - Recommended Reading

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The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Listeners, and Composers by Bruce Adolphe MT35 .A365 1991 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Using imagination and a sense of humor, The Mind's Ear appeals to a wide variety of readers, from the devoted listener to the advanced conservatory student and teacher."
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The Acoustical Foundations of Music by John Backus ML3805.B335 A3 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "The original purpose of Professor Backus's book was to collect and organize the scattered results of research, past and present, in the areas of scientific knowledge that are relevant to music: the physiological properties of sounds; the effect of acoustical environment; the acoustical behavior of musical instruments; and the various applications of electronics and computers to the production, reproduction, and composition of music."
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Philosophical Perspectives On Music by Wayne D. Bowman ML3800 .B69 1998 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Designed to introduce music students and musicians to the vitality of music philosophical discourse, Philosophical Perspectives on Music explores diverse accounts of the nature and value of music. It offers an accessible, even-handed consideration of philosophical orientations without advocating any single one."
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The Psychology of Music by Diana Deutsch Reserve ML3830 .P79 1999 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Chapter titles show continuing interest in many of the traditional topics--rhythm, melody, scales, musical ability, the nature of sound--and also in newer areas of inquiry, e.g., the neuropsychological study of musical perception. The editor has succeeded admirably in making this edition a valuable and timely resource for musicians and psychologists at the upper-division undergraduate level and above."
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Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity by Howard Gardner BF411 .G37 1982 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "In a provocative discussion of the sources of human creativity, Gardner explores all aspects of the subject, from the young child’s ability to learn a new song through Mozart’s conceiving a complete symphony."
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The Developmental Psychology of Music by David J. Hargreaves ML3830 .H28 1986 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "The study has two major objectives: to review the research findings, theories and methodologies relevant to the developmental study of music; and to offer a framework within which these can be organised so as to pave the way for future research."
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Handbook of Music Psychology by David A. Hodges ML3830 .H3 1996 Check Availability
	From Amazon.com: "The Handbook of Music Psychology has been widely used as a textbook and resource book for researchers and practitioners. This edition contains completely revised and up-to-date chapters plus four new chapters. Written by professional musicians with extensive teaching and research experience, the Handbook is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate music psychology classes."
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Science & Music by Sir James Hopwood Jeans ML3805.J436 S3 1968 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "This book sets out all that is relevant in the science of acoustics to the art of music. He offers a simple but precise account (illustrated with well-chosen photographs and diagrams) of the anatomical origin and workings of the human ear; the nature of sound vibrations; and the practical problems of acoustical design."
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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by Robert Jourdain Reserve ML3830 .J68 1998 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Synthesizing recent research from the burgeoning science of musical psychoacoustics, Jourdain, a California musician, provides a richly informative, exuberant, wonderfully accessible introduction to how we perceive and experience music. Choosing examples eclectically, from Henry Mancini's "The Pink Panther" to Mozart, Stravinsky and Duke Ellington, he explores how, when we compose, perform or listen to music, the brain assembles musical devices, patterns and harmonies into vast, meaningful hierarchies of sound."
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Music and Emotion: Theory and Research by Patrik N. Juslin and John A. Sloboda ML3830 .M873 2001 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "The position of emotion in music has been a subject of considerable interest and debate. However emotional aspects of music have received surprising little attention in the 45 years since the publication of Leonard Meyer's classic work 'Emotion and meaning in music.' During that time, both 'music psychology' and 'emotion' have developed as lively areas of research, and the time is fitting therefore to try and bring together this multidisciplinary interest and take stock of what we now know about this important relationship."
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Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch by Carol L. Krumhansl ML3830 .K78 1990 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "A critical mass of psychological data organized in a tight conceptual framework. This publication is a landmark event. . . .The reader. . .is led through the complex issues by lucid explanations and discussions. The clear organization and sense of direction make reading the book an aesthetic as well as an intellectual pleasure."
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A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl and Ray S. Jackendoff MT6.L473 G4 1983 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science. The point of departure is a search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics."
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This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin ML3830 .L38 2006 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Levitin's fascination with the mystery of music and the study of why it affects us so deeply is at the heart of this book. In a real sense, the author is a "rock 'n' roll doctor," and in that guise dissects our relationship with music. He points out that bone flutes are among the oldest of human artifacts to have been found and takes readers on a tour of our bio-history."
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin ML3838 .L48 2008 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Charles Darwin meets the Beatles in this attempt to blend neuroscience and evolutionary biology to explain why music is such a powerful force. In this rewarding though often repetitious study by bestselling author Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music), a rock musician turned neuroscientist, argues that music is a core element of human identity, paving the way for language, cooperative work projects and the recording of our lives and history."
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An Objective Psychology of Music by Robert W. Lundin ML3830 .L86 1967 Check Availability
	Staff summary:: This book seeks to clarify the confusion surrounding the psychological aspects of music. Lundin proposes a "general thesis that musical behavior, like other forms of psychological activity, is subject to the same laws and principles as other human activity." As seen from the title, he emphasizes the objective, rather than subjective, aspect of music.

Music, Language, and the Brain by Aniruddh D. Patel ML3830.P38 2010 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently."
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Music, Language, and the Brain by Aniruddh D. Patel NetLibrary ElectronicBook Check Availability
	From the publisher: "In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently." Electronic version.
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Psychological Foundations of Musical Behavior by Rudolf E. Radocy and J. David. Boyle ML3830 .R33 1997 Check Availability
	From Amazon.com: "In this exceptional new fourth edition, the authors have elected to continue a 'one volume' coverage of a broad array of topics, guided by three criteria: The text is comprehensive in its coverage of diverse areas comprising music psychology; it is comprehensible to the reader; and it is contemporary in its inclusion of information gathered in recent years."
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Introduction to the Physics and Psychophysics of Music by Juan G. Roederer ML3805 .R643 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "This introductory text deals with the physical systems and biological processes that intervene in what we broadly call 'music.' It analyzes what physical properties of sound patterns are associated with what psychological sensations of music, and describes how these sound patterns are actually produced in musical instruments, how they propagate through the environment, and how they are detected by the ear and interpreted in the brain."
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks RC351.S23 M3 1998 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Sacks introduces the reader to real people who suffer from a variety of neurological syndromes which include symptoms such as amnesia, uncontrolled movements, and musical hallucinations. Sacks recounts their stories in a riveting, compassionate, and thoughtful manner."
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver W. Sacks ML3830 .S13 2007 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Our exquisite sensitivity to music can sometimes go wrong: Sacks explores how catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising number of people acquire nonstop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet far more frequently, music goes right: Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia."
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Psychology of Music by Carl E. Seashore ML3830.S43 P8 1967 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Standard study by founder of Seashore test. Relationship between physical phenomena of sounds and our perception of them. Music as a medium, physical acoustics, auditory apparatus, sound perception, host of other topics. Includes 88 figures."
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The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music by John A. Sloboda ML3830 .S56 1994 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Sloboda's book deserves loud applause, for its content, for its frankness in dealing with speculative issues largely ignored by other workers, and especially because it brings with it a new kind of approach."

Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music by William Forde Thompson ML3830.T46 2009 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "Music, Thought, and Feeling references numerous 'Sound Examples' and is supplemented by a companion website (www.oup.com/us/Thompson) containing an extensive collection of music sample audio files, most created specifically for this book."

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music by Isabelle Peretz and Robert J. Zatorre ML3838 .C64 2003 Check Availability
	From the publisher: "This volume brings together an outstanding collection of international authorities - from the fields of music, neuroscience, psychology, and neurology - to describe the amazing advances being made in understanding the complex relationship between music and the brain."

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