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Psychology and music : the understanding of melody and rhythm / edited by Thomas J. Tighe, W. Jay Dowling.
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English
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Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1993.
Description
viii, 228 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
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ML3830 .P897 1993
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Music
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Psychological aspects
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Melody
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Musical meter and rhythm
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Cognition
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Music
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Psychological aspects
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Congresses
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Musical perception
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Summary note
This book deals with the complex cognitive processes involved in understanding two "horizontal" aspects of music perception, melody and rhythm, both separately and together. Focusing on the tonal framework for pitch material in melodies, the first section provides evidence that mere exposure to music organized in a particular way is sufficient to induce the auditory system to prepare itself to receive further input conforming to the patterns already experienced. Its chapters also offer evidence concerning elaborations of those basic schemes that come about through specialized training in music. Continuing themes from the first section--such as the hypothesis that melodies must be treated as integral wholes and not mere collections of elements--the second section discusses the integration of melody and rhythm. In these chapters there is an underlying concern for clarifying the relation--central to aesthetic questions--between physical patterns of sound energy in the world and our psychological experience of them. The chapters in the third section provide excellent examples of the new, scientific literature that attempts to objectively study early musical abilities. Their data establish that infants and young children are far more perceptive and skilled appreciators of music than was thought a decade ago.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Explorations in melody and tonal framework ; Procedural and declarative knowledge in music cognition and education / W. Jay Dowling
Melody comprehension and tonal structure / Lola L. Cuddy
Tonal structure of melodies / James C. Bartlett
The integration of melody and rhythm / W. Jay Dowling
Dynamics of musical patterns : how do melody and rhythm fit together? / Mari Riess Jones
The complexities of rhythm / Alf Gabrielsson
Parallels between pitch and time and how they go together / Caroline B. Monahan
Development of music perception / Thomas J. Tighe
The music listening skills of infants and young children / Sandra E. Trehub
Children's musical cognition and taste / Arlette Zenatti
Development of the perception of musical events / Anne D. Pick, Caroline F. Palmer.
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ISBN
0805801286 ((pbk.))
9780805801286 ((pbk.))
0805801456 ((alk. paper))
9780805801453 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
92004661
OCLC
25370512
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