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Psychology of Music
From Sound to Significance
- By Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher and Rom Harré.
Published April 2010
Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and become refined as one acquires musical expertise?…
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Musical Creativity
Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice
- Edited by Irène Deliège, and Geraint A. Wiggins.
Published June 2006
This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in…
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A Psychology of Early Sufi Samâ`
Listening and Altered States
- By Kenneth S. Avery.
Published August 2004
Avery explores the psychology of altered states among the early Sufis. It examines samâ` - listening to ritual recitation, music and certain other aural phenomena - and its effect in inducing unusual states of consciousness and behaviours. The focus is on the earliest personalities of the…
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