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  • The Science and Psychology of Music

    From Beethoven at the Office to Beyoncé at the Gym

    Edited by William Forde Thompson, Kirk N. Olsen ...
    This book provides a broad introduction to the scientific and psychological study of music, exploring how music is processed by our brains, affects us emotionally, shapes our personal and cultural identities, and can be used in therapeutic and educational contexts.Why are some people unable to carry a tune while others are musical savants? What do our musical preferences say about our personality ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

    An Encyclopedia

    Edited by William Forde Thompson ...
    This definitive reference resource examines how music affects human beings and their interactions in and with the world. The interdisciplinary nature of the work provides a starting place for students to situate the status of music within the social sciences in fields such as anthropology, communications, psychology, linguistics, sociology, sports, political science and economics, as well as ... Read more

    $323.99 USD

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  • This Is Your Brain on Music

    The Science of a Human Obsession

    by Daniel J. Levitin ...
    In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so ... Read more

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  • Guitar Zero

    The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age

    by Gary Marcus ...
    Gary Marcus challenges the widely held belief that innate talent is necessary to become a skilled musicianJust about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

    Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

    by Andreas C. Lehmann;John A. Sloboda;Robert H. Woody ...
    What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners advanced music makers and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians and fewer still become musicians of international class. ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Science and Psychology of Music Performance

    Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Richard Parncutt, Gary McPherson ...
    What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading, memorization, and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    How Music Plays the Mind

    by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ...
    What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Handbook of Music and Emotion

    Theory, Research, Applications

    Edited by Patrik N. Juslin, John Sloboda ...
    Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book 'Music and Emotion' (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated much further work in this area. In the years since publication of that book, empirical research in this area has blossomed, and the successor to ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Music, Mind and Education

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    Keith Swanwick explores the psychological and sociological dimensions of musical experience and the implications of these for children's development and music education in schools and colleges. Music is seen, with the other arts, as contributing to the growth of mind, with deep psychological roots in play. Swanwick examines the ways in which children make their own music, and confirms that there ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Music Therapy

    An art beyond words

    by Leslie Bunt, Brynjulf Stige ...
    Music therapy is recognised as being applicable to a wide range of healthcare and social contexts. Since the first edition of Music Therapy: An art beyond words, it has extended into areas of general medicine, mainstream education and community practice. This new edition revises the historical and theoretical perspectives and recognises the growing evidence and research base in contemporary music ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Musical Development

    by David Hargreaves, Alexandra Lamont ...
    The Psychology of Musical Development provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the latest theory, empirical research and applications in the study of musical development, an important and emerging field of music psychology. After considering how people now engage with music in the digital world, and reviewing current advances in developmental and music psychology, Hargreaves and Lamont ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Child as Musician

    A handbook of musical development

    Edited by Gary E. McPherson ...
    The new edition of The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development celebrates the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music. It presents theory - both cutting edge and classic - in an accessible way for readers by surveying research concerned with the development and acquisition of musical skills. The focus is on musical ... Read more

    $55.79 USD