Introduction to the Psychology of Music

Dover (2000) unabridged republication of the edition published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1954.

CONTENIDO:

Preface
Preface to the Translation

PART I: Hearing, Sound, and Musical Tone
- Dependence of Sound Perception on Physical Stimulus
- Physiological Acoustics
- The Human Voice

PART II: Fundamental Problems of the Psycology of Sound
- Basic Elements of Musical Tone
- Theory of Intervals
- The Consonance Problem
- The Musical Ear
- Key Characteristics
- Relation between Tone and Colour Perception

PART III: Fundamental Problems of the Psycology of Music
- Musicality
- Musical Talent
- Development of Musical Capacity
- Inheritance of Musical Capacities
- Creative Works
- Receptive and Productive Musical Accomplishments of the Deaf
- Pathology of Musical Perceptivity
- The Origin of Music
- Aesthetics and the Psychology of Music