Music & the Mind

4.0 credits

An introduction to the discipline of music cognition. Topics surveyed include empirical methods, psycho-acoustic principles, influence of Gestalt psychology, music and language, metric and tonal hierarchies, music and the brain, aspects of musical development, and research on musical memory, expectation, and emotion. Lecture and discussion format, with exams and final literature-review research paper. Cross-listed as TH 260.