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Why do we respond to fictional events in art as if they were real, even though we know they're not? What is it that makes a performance of music emotionally expressive? Based on ground-breaking research, this book explores how music expresses and arouses emotions, and how it becomes an object of aesthetic judgments.
Oct 2, 2014 · Musical preference has been defined as “a person’s liking for one piece of music as compared with another at a given point in time” while taste is held to reflect “the overall patterning of an individual’s preferences over longer time periods” ( Hargreaves, North and Tarrant, 2006, p. 135).
The psychology of music is a subfield of psychology that addresses questions of how the mind responds to, imagines, controls the performance of, and evaluates music.
- Robert O Gjerdingen
- 2002
Summary. Music performance involves precise motor control that is coordinated with higher order planning to convey complex structural information.
The art of music psychology is to bring rigorous scientific methodologies to questions about the human musical capacity while applying sophisticated humanistic approaches to framing and interpreting the science.
Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.
Oct 2, 2014 · 759–774. Published: 07 April 2015. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter presents a critical review of current thinking on psychological approaches to musical identities, a subdiscipline of music psychology that has developed rapidly over the last decade.
