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The psychology of music is a subfield of psychology that addresses questions of how the mind responds to, imagines, controls the performance of, and evaluates music. The history of this subfield has been greatly influenced by the major trends and developments in the parent discipline, and the organization of this chapter follows the traditional ...
- Robert O Gjerdingen
- 2002
This review summarizes psychological research on music performance, starting with studies of different levels of expertise (including the question of musical “talent” and deficits), the process and effects of music learning and the role of memory, the interplay between perception and action in performance, the use of expression in music ...
Jul 24, 2013 · It covers the origins and functions of music, music perception, responses to music, neurological substrates, musical development, acquisition of musical skills, performance, composition and improvisation, music in everyday life, music therapy, and methodological considerations.
The art of music psychology is to bring rigorous scientific methodologies to questions about the human musical capacity while applying sophisticated humanistic approaches to framing and interpreting the science.
This chapter introduces the psychology of music as a field of study. It covers a number of topics, including the cultural nature of music, the contributors to emotionally powerful music experiences, and the acquired skill explanation of musical ability.
Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.
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animism, belief in innumerable spiritual beings concerned with human affairs and capable of helping or harming human interests. Animistic beliefs were first competently surveyed by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor in his work Primitive Culture (1871), to which is owed the continued currency of the term. While none of the major world religions are ...
