HST.725 | Spring 2009 | Graduate

Music Perception and Cognition

Lecture Notes

Topic Summaries for HST.725 2009

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Overview of the course with a summary of key lecture topics. Topics include the psychological functions of music, musical sound, the auditory system, pitch, timbre, consonance and dissonance, scales and tuning, melody and harmony, rhythm, expectancy, meaning, emotion, pleasure, musical preferences, developmental psychology of music, and comparative and evolutionary psychology of music.

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Topic Summaries for HST.725 2009

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