Ashley RichardTimmers Renee - The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition

The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the psychological, physiological, and physical processes that allow music to take place, seeking to explain how and why music has such powerful and mysterious effects on us. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research in music cognition, balancing accessibility with depth and sophistication.

A diverse range of global scholarsmusic theorists, musicologists, pedagogues, neuroscientists, and psychologistsaddress the implications of music in everyday life while broadening the range of topics in music cognition research, deliberately seeking connections with the kinds of music and musical experiences that are meaningful to the population at large but are often overlooked in the study of music cognition. Such topics include:

Musics impact on physical and emotional health
Music cognition in various genres
Music cognition in diverse populations, including people with amusia and hearing loss
The relationship of music to learning and accomplishment in academics, sport, and recreation
The broader sociological and anthropological uses of music

Consisting of over forty essays, the volume is organized by five primary themes. The first section, Music from the Air to the Brain, provides a neuroscientific and theoretical basis for the book. The next three sections are based on musical actions: Hearing and Listening to Music, Making and Using Music, and Developing Musicality. The closing section, Musical Meanings, returns to fundamental questions related to musics meaning and significance, seen from historical and contemporary perspectives. The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition seeks to encourage readers to understand connections between the laboratory and the everyday in their musical lives.

Richard Ashley is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern University, where he also holds appointments in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Renee Timmers is Reader in Psychology of Music at the Department of Music, The University of Sheffield, UK, where she directs the research center Music, Mind, Machine in Sheffield, and teaches psychology of music at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Edited by
Richard Ashley and Renee Timmers

First published 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ashley, Richard (Musicologist), editor. | Timmers, Renee, 1974 editor.
Title: The Routledge companion to music cognition / edited by Richard Ashley and Renee Timmers.
Description: New York: Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016050960 (print) | LCCN 2016052264 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138721050 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315194738
Subjects: LCSH: MusicPsychological aspects. | MusicPhysiological aspects. | MusicPerformancePsychological aspects. | Musical perception. | MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics.
Classification: LCC ML3830 .R79 2017 (print) | LCC ML3830 (ebook) | DDC 781.1/1dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016050960

ISBN: 978-1-138-72105-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-19473-8 (ebk)

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