An accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.
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This Companion captures a new paradigm in the study of music interaction, as a wave of recent research focuses on the role of the human body in musical experiences. This volume brings together a broad collection of work that explores all aspects of this new approach to understan…
"This handbook takes on the task of examining the history of music listening over the past two hundred years. It uses the 'art of listening' as a leitmotif encompassing an entanglement of interdependent practices and discourses about a learnable mode of perception. The art of li…
An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The act of listening as considered to be an invisible and ephemeral phenomenon, a naturally given mode of perception. This narrative influenced the …
The Routledge companion to music cognition
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The Routledge companion to music cognition
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This Companion addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the psychological, physiological, and physical processes that allow music to take place, seeking to explain how …
