This volume presents an overview of a relatively new field of psychoacoustic and hearing research that involves perception of musical sound patterns. The material is considered in a set of chapters that reflect the current status of scientific scholarship related to music perception. Each chapter aims at synthesizing a range of findings associated with one of of several major research areas in the field of music perception.
Exploring how we listen to musical events, this book covers pitch perception in complex patterns, the role of tonal schemes, effects of metrical and rhythmic schemes, the ability of children and adults to perceive and comprehend dynamic sound patterns and more.
Music Perception: Current Research and Future Directions.- The Perception of Family and Register in Musical Tones.- A Theory of Tonal Hierarchies in Music.- Music Acquisition and Effects of Musical Experience.- Music and Emotion.- Tempo and Rhythm.- Neurodynamics of Music.- Memory for Melodies.