Music Cognition: The Basics
The Basics
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2021
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-0-367-74526-4 (ISBN)
Description
Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Music Cognition: The Basics considers the role of our cognitive functions, such as perception, memory, attention, and expectation in perceiving, making, and appreciating music.
In this volume, Henkjan Honing explores the active role these functions play in how music makes us feel; exhilarated, soothed, or inspired. Grounded in the latest research in areas of psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience, and with clear examples throughout, this book concentrates on underappreciated musical skills such as sense of rhythm, beat induction, and relative pitch, that make people intrinsically musical creatures-supporting the conviction that all humans have a unique, instinctive attraction to music.
The scope of the topics discussed ranges from the ability of newborns to perceive a beat, to the unexpected musical expertise of ordinary listeners. It is a must read for anyone studying the psychology of music, auditory perception, or simply interested in why we enjoy music the way we do.
In this volume, Henkjan Honing explores the active role these functions play in how music makes us feel; exhilarated, soothed, or inspired. Grounded in the latest research in areas of psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience, and with clear examples throughout, this book concentrates on underappreciated musical skills such as sense of rhythm, beat induction, and relative pitch, that make people intrinsically musical creatures-supporting the conviction that all humans have a unique, instinctive attraction to music.
The scope of the topics discussed ranges from the ability of newborns to perceive a beat, to the unexpected musical expertise of ordinary listeners. It is a must read for anyone studying the psychology of music, auditory perception, or simply interested in why we enjoy music the way we do.
Reviews / Votes
"Insights from one of the leading researchers working at the intersection of music, psychology, and computer science."-Dan Levitin, author of This is your brain on music
"A graceful and precise introduction into the intricacy of what ordinary humans manage to learn about music, naturally and automatically, just by listening."
-Gary Marcus, author of Guitar Zero
"Honing demonstrates that ordinary listeners, whether children or adults, are a lot more musically savvy than they think they are."
-Sandra Trehub, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 36 s/w Abbildungen, 34 s/w Zeichnungen
34 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-74526-4 (9780367745264)
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Henkjan Honing
Music Cognition: The Basics
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09/2021
1st Edition
Routledge
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Henkjan Honing
Music Cognition: The Basics
E-Book
09/2021
1st Edition
Routledge
€27.49
Available for download
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09/2021
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
Henkjan Honing is professor of Music Cognition at both the faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam and member elect of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Content
Part 1: De do do do, de da da da | The tone of speech and music 1. First Listening Experiences 2. The Illiterate Listener Part 2: Ooh-ooh-ooh | The Magic of Music 3. Music as Mystery 4. Music as Language 5. Music as Sound Part 3: Hmmm . . . | Music and Musicality 6. We're Musical Creatures 7. Measuring the Beat 8. Do You Recognize this Melody? Part 4: Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta | Music as Cognition 9. The Secret of the "Loud Rest" 10. The Secret of the Details 11. The Secret, Mapped Out Part 5: Aha! | Music in Our Minds 12. The Musical Listener 13. Listening and Learning 14. Encore