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Sweet anticipation : music and the psychology of expectation / David Huron.
LIBRA ML3838 .H87 2006
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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3838 .H87 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huron, David Brian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Psychological aspects.
- Music.
- Expectation (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 462 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- A theory of expectations is used to explain how music evokes various emotions; for readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as music.
- Contents:
- 2 Surprise 19
- 3 Measuring Musical Expectation 41
- 4 Auditory Learning 59
- 5 Statistical Properties of Music 73
- 6 Heuristic Listening 91
- 7 Mental Representation of Expection (I) 101
- 8 Prediction Effect 131
- 9 Tonality 143
- 10 Expectation in Time 175
- 11 Genres, Schemas, and Firewalls 203
- 12 Mental Representation of Expectation (II) 219
- 13 Creating Predictability 239
- 14 Creating Surprise 269
- 15 Creating Tension 305
- 16 Expecting the Unexpected 331
- 17 A Sense of Future 355.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-448) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0262083450
- OCLC:
- 61684238
- Publisher Number:
- 9780262083454
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