MUSIC 231
Music Cognition
Fall 2023
Topics
- Music perception and cognition
- Memory and musical information
- Listeners and musical meaning
- Aesthetic, emotional, and physical responses to music
Readings
- Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music
- Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation
- Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art
- Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications
- The Natural Musician: On Abilities, Giftedness and Talent
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
- The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
- Music, Language, and the Brain
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2023