Exploring the Musical Mind Cognition, Emotion, Ability, Function [Paperback]

In the 20 years since publication of John Sloboda's landmark volumeThe Musical Mind, music psychology has developed as a vibrant area of research - exerting influence on areas as diverse as music education and cognitive neuroscience. This new book brings together 24 selected essays and reviews written by an internationally acclaimed authority on music and the mind. Chapters are grouped into four main areas of study. These are, cognitive processes (including music reading, memory and performance), emotion and motivation, talent and skill development, and music in the real world (including functions of music in everyday life and culture). The book ends with a newly written chapter on music psychology and social benefits. The books brings together in one place a range of influential writings, whose links to one another provide a compendious overview of a subject that has come to maturity during the author's career, a career which has significantly contributed to the development of the field.

Section A
1. The psychology of music reading
2. Experimental studies of music reading: a review
3. The uses of space in music notation
4. Immediate recall of melodies
5. Cognition and real music: the psychology of music comes of age
6. Psychological structures in music: core research 1980-1990
7. Book review of Language, Music and Mind
8. Does music mean anything?
Section B
9. Music as a language
10. Music psychology and the composer
11. Empirical studies of emotional response to music
12. Emotional responses to music: a review
13. Musical performance and emotion: issues and developments
Section C
14. Musical expertise
15. Musical ability
16. The acquisition of music performance expertise
17. Are some children more gifted for music than others?
Section D
18. Everyday uses of music
19. Music: where cognition and emotion meet
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