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 The
Psychology of Music (Academic Press Series in Cognition and Perception)
by Diana Deutsch (Editor)
The aim of
the psychology of music is to understand musical phenomena in
terms of mental functions--to characterize the ways in which one
perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music. Since the First
Edition of The Psychology of Music was published the field
has emerged from an interdisciplinary curiosity into a fully ramified
subdiscipline of psychology due to several factors. The opportunity
to generate, analyze, and transform sounds by computer is no longer
limited to a few researchers with access to large multi-user facilities,
but rather is available to individual investigators on a widespread
basis. Second, dramatic advances in the field of neuroscience
have profoundly influenced thinking about the way that music is
processed in the brain. Third, collaborations between psychologists
and musicians, which were evolving at the time the First Edition
was written, are now quite common; to a large extent now speaking
a common language and agreeing on basic philosophical issues.
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