Brain and Music [Paperback]

• Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion
• Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts
• Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the topics of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical semantics
• Integrates research from different domains (such as music, language, action and emotion both theoretically and empirically, to create a comprehensive theory of music psychology

Part I Introductory Chapters 1

1 Ear and Hearing 3

1.1 The ear 3

1.2 Auditory brainstem and thalamus 6

1.3 Place and time information 8

1.4 Beats, roughness, consonance and dissonance 9

1.5 Acoustical equivalency of timbre and phoneme 11

1.6 Auditory cortex 12

2 Music-theoretical Background 17

2.1 How major keys are related 17

2.2 The basic in-key functions in major 20

2.3 Chord inversions and Neapolitan sixth chords 21

2.4 Secondary dominants and double dominants 21

3 Perception of Pitch and Harmony 23

3.1 Context-dependent representation of pitch 23

3.2 The representation of key-relatedness 26

3.3 The developing and changing sense of key 29

3.4 The representation of chord-functions 30

3.5 Hierarchy of harmonic stability 31