Mystery and Music
This page (an extension of these ideas) will be developed — and the pages below will be reviewed more critically — later, maybe in July 2019, but for now here are a few things you may find interesting:
• Emotion and Meaning in Music, by Leonard
Meyer (1956): publisher's
description &
recent customer
reviews.
• Meyerfest at
Northwestern — David
Huron's abstract &
slide
presentation & scholarly
outline & other
talks and
• David Huron's book (Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology
of Expectation)
is reviewed for Nature by Petr Janata (Hitting
the Right Note) and (for Empirical Musicology Review) by Rita
Aiello (musician) and William
Thompson (cognitive psychologist) — and
a free podcast
book review that is a bit bombastically scholarly, but is interesting
if you're in the mood for it.
There will be more here later, including explorations of recent books about the psychology of music, such as those cited by Amazon and other essays by Meyer plus his 1989 book.
Musical Improvisation – Artistic Creativity plus Music Theory
The Science, Math, and Art of Music