Music Perception

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Riess Jones, Mari (Editor), Fay, Richard R. (Editor), Popper, Arthur N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 36
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Acoustics.; Cognitive psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cognitive Psychology.

This volume presents an overview of a relatively new field of psychoacoustic and hearing research that involves perception of musical sound patterns. The material is considered in a set of chapters that reflect the current status of scientific scholarship related to music perception.  Each chapter a...

Table of Contents:

• Music Perception: Current Research and Future Directions
• The Perception of Family and Register in Musical Tones
• A Theory of Tonal Hierarchies in Music
• Music Acquisition and Effects of Musical Experience
• Music and Emotion
• Tempo and Rhythm
• Neurodynamics of Music
• Memory for Melodies.