The social psychology of music /
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| Language: | English |
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[Ames, Iowa] :
Iowa State University Press,
[1969]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The psychological approach to music
- Musical scales
- The interval
- Melody
- Language aspects of music
- Nature of musical taste
- The measures of musical taste
- The nature of musical abilities
- The measurement of musical abilities
- Applications of music to industry and therapy.
- The psychological approach to music. Frequent invalidity of common sense ; History lag ; Search for alternative hypotheses ; Limitations of psychomusical investigations ; Possibilities of research in experimental aesthetics ; Absence of absolutes ; Preview of later chapters
- Musical scales. Pythagorean scale of ancient Greece ; Scales of just intonation ; Mean-tone temperaments ; Equal temperament in world music ; Detectability of scale and note differences ; Other possible scales ; Summary
- The interval. Distinctive quality ; Vibrato and trill ; Apparent pitch of intervals ; Major-minor effect in intervals: a fiction ; Finality effects ; Interval resolutions ; Tonality ; Consonance and dissonance ; Summary
- Melody. Principles of attention and learning ; Melody and pitch level ; Melody and loudness ; Melody and timbre ; Melody and sonance ; Melody and noise ; Melody and tempo ; Melody and rhythm ; Harmony ; Summary
- Language aspects of music. Desire for communication ; Embodied meaning (Grammar or syntax) ; Designative meaning ; Alleged mode and key effects ; Major and minor modes ; Color-tone linkage ; "Language of the emotions" ; Adjective lists for classifying music ; Variables which give meaning to music ; Expression of tensions ; Music as a universal language ; Psychoanalytic symbolism ; Summary
- Nature of musical taste. Eminence ; Enjoyment ; Knowledge of composers ; Programs ; Number of recordings ; Space allocations ; Individual and group differences ; Criteria and conditioners of taste ; Summary
- The measures of musical taste. Variety of measures ; Auditory tests ; Paper-and-pencil tests ; Polling ; Orchestral programs ; Broadcasts of recordings ; Record listings ; Scholarly texts ; Boredom ; Summary
- The nature of musical abilities. Ability-appropriate descriptive term ; Generality of ability ; Are abilities in music related to other art abilities? ; Academic intelligence and musical abilities ; Heritability of musical abilities ; Musical abilities and physical and mental structure ; Adlerian views on ability ; Jungian views on ability ; Freudian views on ability ; Imagery as a source of abilities ; Developing abilities ; Training methods: general problems ; Training methods: special problems ; Creativity ; Summary
- The measurement of musical abilities. Tests of verbal knowledge ; Tests which stress nonverbal musical skills ; Unstandardized aptitude tests ; Original seashore battery ; Tilson-Gretsch test for musical aptitude ; 1939 revision of seashore measures of musical talents ; Kwalwasser-Dykema music tests ; Kwalwasser music talent test ; Storey tests ; 1932 and 1954 Drake tests ; Wheeler battery ; Whistler-Thorpe musical aptitude test ; Lundin tests ; Gaston test of musicality ; Wing standardized tests of musical intelligence ; Gordon musical aptitude profile ; Taylor tests ; Bentley measures of musical abilities ; Strong vocational interest test ; Future of music aptitude tests
- Applications of music to industry and therapy. Physiological changes ; Music and general activity ; Effects of music on achievement ; Present status on music therapy
- Epilogue
- Appendices. A. The musical taste of an American elite ; B. Glossary.