Music Perception; Series Preface; Volume Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Music Perception: Current Research and Future Directions; Chapter 2: The Perception of Family and Register in Musical Tones; Chapter 3: A Theory of Tonal Hierarchies in Music; Chapter 4: Music Acquisition and Effects of Musical Experience; Chapter 5: Music and Emotion; Chapter 6: Tempo and Rhythm; Chapter 7: Neurodynamics of Music; Chapter 8: Memory for Melodies; Index
Summary
The increasing prevalence of musical stimulation in our everyday environment makes studies of musical listening, comprehension and memory important. Music has simply become a pervasive aspect of the experienced environment for most of us; along with enhanced levels of machine sounds, musical sound sources are contributing to a virtual transformation of contemporary soundscapes occurring in many industrial countries. In spite of such trends, arguably the mainstream research in psychology and related fields has been slow to devote concentrated attention to this phenomenon and what it might mean
