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Pages: 401
Authors: Charles O. Nussbaum
Categories: Emotions in music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: MIT Press

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How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a
The Rhythmic Structure of Music
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Grosvenor W. Cooper
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1963-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this book, the authors develop a theoretical framework based on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings.
The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: David Temperley
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-20 - Publisher: MIT Press

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In this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phras
A Geometry of Music
Language: en
Pages: 469
Authors: Dmitri Tymoczko
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-21 - Publisher: OUP USA

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In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities amon
Music: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Nicholas Cook
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-02-24 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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This stimulating Very Short Introduction to music invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it. The world teems with dif