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Music psychology
Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of psychology or a branch of musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behavior and musical experience. Modern music psychology is mainly empirical: music-psychological knowledge tends to advance primarily on the basis of interpretations of data about musical behavior and experience, which are collected by systematic observation of and interaction with human participants. Music psychology is a field of research with practical relevance for music performance, music composition, music education, music medicine, and music therapy.
Scope
The modern, international field of music psychology is gradually exploring a multitude of issues that surround the question of why humans spend enormous amounts of time, effort, and money on musical activities. Music psychology may be regarded as scientific research about human culture. The results of this research have, and will continue to have, direct implications for matters of general concern: human values, human identity, human nature, and quality of life.
Research areas
Questions in music psychology are often difficult to answer. It is therefore necessary to subject the research literature to careful quality control procedures. These generally take the form of anonymous expert peer review, which is a standard feature of all leading music-psychological societies, conferences, and journals. Music psychologists investigate all aspects of musical behavior by applying methods and knowledge from all aspects of psychology. Topics of study include for example: Perception of musical sounds Perception of sound patterns Memory for music Absolute pitch everyday music listening (while driving, eating, shopping, reading...) musical rituals and gatherings (religious, festive, sporting, political...) the specific skills and processes involved in learning a musical instrument or singing in a choir musical behaviors such as dancing and responding emotionally to music development of musical behaviours and abilities throughout the lifespan the role of music in forming personal and group identities preferences: the reasons why we like some music genres and not others Social influences on musical preference (peers, family, experts, social background, etc.) the structures that we hear within music: melody, phrasing, harmony, tonality, rhythm, meter, danceability, BPM, or quasilinguistic elements such as syntax the psychological processes involved in musical performance, including: music reading, including eye movement in music reading improvisation the interpersonal/social aspects of group performance the composition/arrangement of music on paper or with the aid of computers
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Related fields
Cognitive musicology Cognitive neuroscience of music Music cognition Psychoacoustics
Resources
Journals
The main music psychology journals are: Music Perception [1] Psychology of Music [2] Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie [3] The following journals include a high proportion of music-psychological articles: Musicae Scientiae [4] Journal of New Music Research [5] Music psychologists also publish in a wide range of mainstream musicology, music theory/analysis, psychology, music education, music therapy, music medicine, and systematic musicology journals. The latter include for example: Computer Music Journal [6] Journal of Mathematics and Music [7] Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [8]
Books
Leading book publishers in the area of music psychology include Oxford University Press's Music Psychology books [10] and MIT Press's Music Psychology books [11]. Deutsch, Diana (1999). The Psychology of Music (2 ed.). San Diego: Academic Press. ISBN0122135652. Thompson, William Forde (2009). Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0195377079. Hallam, Cross, & Thaut, eds. (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Conferences
The most important conference in music psychology is the biannual International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition [15]. Other important conferences are organised regularly by: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) [16] Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC, USA) [17] Regional music psychology conferences are organised regularly by: Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Musikpsychologie (DGM) [3] Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE, Britain) [18] Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition (JSMPC) [19] Australian Music and Psychology Society (AMPS) [20] Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (APSCOM) [21]
Email lists
The leading email list in the area of music psychology is Psymus. Music-psychological topics are also addressed on the following lists: Systematische Musikwissenschaft (MuWiSys) [22] Auditory [23] Society for Music Theory (SMT-LIST) [24] SMT Music Cognition Group (SMTMCG) [25] Euromusicology [26] Sound and Mind [27] Australian Music Psychology Society [28]
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Educational centers
Music psychology (including music perception, music cognition, and music performance research) is studied and researched at the following universities and music academies: Argentina : National University of La Plata [29] Australia : Macquarie University [30], Melbourne University [31], University of Western Sydney [32], University of Western Australia [33] Austria : Graz [34], Klagenfurt [35] Belgium : Ghent [36] Britain : Cambridge University [37], Institute of Education [38], Keele University [39], Leeds University [40], Roehampton University, London [41], University of Leicester [42], University of London, Royal College of Music, London [43], Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester [44], Sheffield University [45], University of Edinburgh, Goldsmiths College, London [46] Canada : McGill University [47], University of Toronto [48], Queens University [49], University of Prince Edward Island [50], Ryerson University [51] Finland : Jyvskyl [52] France : Lyon [53], Dijon [54] Germany : Halle [55], Hannover [56], Kln [57], Oldenburg [58], Wrzburg [59] Ireland : University of Limerick [60] Japan : Kyushu University [19] Korea : Seoul National University [61] Netherlands : University of Amsterdam [62], Nijmegen [63] Poland : Warsaw University [64] Sweden : Uppsala [65], Stockholm University [66] USA : Northwestern [67], University of Oregon [68], University of Texas at San Antonio [69], Stanford [70], UCLA [71] , Ohio State School of Music [72], Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester [73], University of Arkansas [74], Florida State University [75]
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