The effects of music : a series of essays

Author(s)

• Schoen, Max

Bibliographic Information

The effects of music : a series of essays

edited by Max Schoen

（International library of psychology, 55 . Cognitive psychology ; 18）

Routledge, 1999

• : set

Note

"First published in 1927 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner"--T.p. verso

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780415209731

Description

This is Volume XVIII of twenty-one of collection of works on Cognitive Psychology. Initially published in 1927 it offers a collection of essays on the effects of music on the listerner.The book is at once a response and a challenge. It is a response to the inquiry which any thoughtful listener makes, " What is this music doing to me ? " A t the same time it is a challenge to science to explain more adequately than has as yet been done the nature and the mysteries of musical effects.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction, W. V. Bingham
• Part 1 Types of Listeners to Music
• Chapter 2 Individual Differences in Listening to Music, Charles S. Myers
• Chapter 3 Types of Listeners. Genetic Considerations, Otto Ortmann
• Part 2 The Sources of Musical Enjoyment
• Chapter 4 An Experimental Study of the Nature of Musical Enjoyment, Esther L. Gatewood
• Chapter 5 An Experimental Study of the Nature of Musical Enjoyment (continued), Esther L. Gatewood
• Chapter 6 The Sources and Nature of the Affective Reaction to Instrumental Music, Margaret Floy Washburn, George L. Dickinson
• Part 3 The Mood Effects of Music
• Chapter 7 The Mood Effects of Music, Max Schoen, Esther L. Gatewood
• Chapter 8 Problems Related to the Mood Effects of Music, Max Schoen, Esther L. Gatewood
• Part 4 The Organic Effects of Music
• Chapter 9 Effects of Music Upon Electro-Cardiograms and Blood Pressure, Ida H. Hyde
• Part 5 The Effects of Repetition and Familiarity
• Chapter 10 The Effect of Immediate Repetition on the Pleasantness or Unpleasantness of Music, Margaret Floy Washburn, Margaret S. Child, Theodora Mead Abel
• Chapter 11 The Immediate and Long-Time Effects of Classical and Popular Phonograph Selections, A.R. Gilliland, H. T. Moore
• Chapter 12 The Effect on a Musical Programme of Familiarity and of Sequence of Selections, June E. Downey, George E. Knapp
• Part 6 Effects of Music Besides Auditory and Organic
• Chapter 13 Non-Auditory Effects of Music, Otto Ortmann
• Chapter 14 A Study in the Use of Similes for Describing Music and its Effects, Esther L. Gatewood

Volume

: set ISBN 9780415211260

Description

This set provides an excellent overview of early investigations into areas now included in cognitive psychology. Titles cover subjects including colour and colour theory, sense-perception, speech, memory, reasoning and language, as well as contemporary approaches to Gestalt psychology.

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Details

• NCID: BA4437239X
• ISBN:
  • 0415211263
  • 0415209730
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 273 p., [4] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML3838
  • DC : 781.1/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Music -- Psychology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00391058