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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.
Contributor:
James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
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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