What happens when we listen to music? Why are certain forms pleasing and others not? John Davies was both a psychologist and a talented musician and The Psychology of Music, originally published in 1978, explores the nature of man's eternal need for, and love of, music. Drawing on current research in psychology and social psychology at the time, he explores the processes beneath this love affair in an easy and fluent style liberally punctuated with amusing and, occasionally, startling examples.
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The Psychology of Music
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PsychologyTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- The Psychology of Music
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 Psychology and music
- What is music?
- 3 The musical present
- 4 Events of the past
- 5 What makes a tune?
- 6 Some further aspects of musical perception
- 7 Musical ability and musical aptitude: the problem of definition
- 8 Problems of measurement
- 9 Test material: pitch
- 10 Test material: memory for tonal sequences
- 11 Consonance and dissonance
- 12 Rhythm: tonality's poor relation
- 13 Musicians and instruments
- 14 Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Names
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