A Decade Of Research In Experimental Psychology Of Music

Author : Paul R. Farnsworth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366420926
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Social Psychology of Music (Classic Reprint) written by Paul R. Farnsworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Social Psychology of Music Lundin's An Objective Psychology gf Music was also published in I 9 5 3 As the only American text to appear in thirteen years, it had the important task of digesting the research materials of more than a decade. This book has a cultural and relativistic flavor and an inter behavioristic orientation. Two other American books have influenced music - psychology research, although they are not formal texts in the psychology of music. One was Pratt's The Meaning of Music, which was a series of essays rather than a textbook and hence made no attempt to cover the experimental literature. Showing a high degree of sophistication, Pratt's little book was written in large part as a defense of formalism. The other work was given the rather frightening title The Musician's Arithmetic. Its author, Max Meyer, to whom the present book is dedicated, is one of the most brilliant theorists and experimenters in the field. Indeed, it was the manuscript of Meyer's treatise which first stirred the interest of this author in the psychology of music. Meyer's book offered exciting neurological speculations as well as important research data, but it is admittedly difficult to read and therefore has had an extremely limited audience. Although over the years the present writer has become increasingly disappointed at the slow growth of scientific neurology and has occupied himself less and less with theorizing along the lines suggested by Meyer, he still appreciates Meyer's refreshing approach and feels that the serious student will find The Musician's Arithmetic, Meyer's early articles, and his more recent How We Hear well worth careful attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.