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Psychology for Musicians

Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

By: Andreas C. Lehmann,John A. Sloboda,Robert H. Woody

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Psychology for Musicians

Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

By: Andreas C. Lehmann,John A. Sloboda,Robert H. Woody

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians, and fewer still become musicians of international class. Psychology for Musicians provides the basis for answering this question. Examining the processes that underlie the acquisition of musical skills, Lehmann, Sloboda, and Woody provide a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians.

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Oxford University Press

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0199881901

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9780199881901

The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills

By: Don Rogers,John A. Sloboda

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The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills

By: Don Rogers,John A. Sloboda

This book is a selection of papers from a conference which took place at the University of Keele in July 1982. The conference was an extraordinarily enjoyable one, and we would like to take this opportunity of thanking all participants for helping to make it so. The conference was intended to allow scholars working on different aspects of symbolic behaviour to compare findings, to look for common ground, and to identify differences between the various areas. We hope that it was successful in these aims: the assiduous reader may judge for himself. Several themes emerged during the course of the conference. Some of these were: 1. There is a distinction to be made between those symbol systems which attempt, more or less directly, to represent a state of affairs in the world (e. g. language, drawing, map and navigational skill) and those in which the representational function is complemented, if not overshadowed, by properties of the symbol system itself, and the systematic inter-relations that symbols can have to one another (e. g. music, mathematics). The distinction is not absolute, for the nature of all symbolic skills is, in part, a function of the structure of the symbolic system employed. Nonetheless, this distinction helps us to understand some common acquisition difficulties, such as that experienced in mathematics, where mental manipulation of symbols can go awry if a child assumes too close a correspondence between mathematical symbols and the world they represent. 2.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461337240

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9781461337249

Handbook of Music and Emotion

Theory, Research, Applications

By: Patrik N. Juslin,John Sloboda

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Handbook of Music and Emotion

Theory, Research, Applications

By: Patrik N. Juslin,John Sloboda

A successor to the acclaimed 'Music and Emotion', The Handbook of Music and Emotion provides comprehensive coverage of the field, in all its breadth and depth. As well as summarizing what is currently known about music and emotion, it will also stimulate further research in promising directions that have been little studied.

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990

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Oxford University Press

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0199604967

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9780199604968

Exploring the Musical Mind

Cognition, Emotion, Ability, Function

By: John Sloboda

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Exploring the Musical Mind

Cognition, Emotion, Ability, Function

By: John Sloboda

Brings together in one volume important material from various hard-to-locate sources, giving the reader access to a body of work from one of the founders of music psychology Complements and updates Sloboda's 'The musical mind

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Oxford University Press

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0198530137

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Why You Love Music

From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

By: John Powell

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Why You Love Music

From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

By: John Powell

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune. Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make us smile or cry, it helps us bond with the people around us, and it even has the power to alleviate a range of medical conditions. The songs you love (and hate, and even the ones you feel pretty neutral about) don't just make up the soundtrack to your life -- they actually help to shape it. In Why You Love Music, scientist and musician John Powell dives deep into decades of psychological and sociological studies in order to answer the question "Why does music affect us so profoundly?" With his relaxed, conversational style, Powell explores all aspects of music psychology, from how music helps babies bond with their mothers to the ways in which music can change the taste of wine or persuade you to spend more in restaurants. Why You Love Music will open your eyes (and ears) to the astounding variety of ways that music impacts the human experience.

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Little, Brown Spark

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0316260681

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Book's by John A. Sloboda

Psychology for Musicians

Psychology for Musicians

The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills

The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills

Handbook of Music and Emotion

Handbook of Music and Emotion

Exploring the Musical Mind

Exploring the Musical Mind

Why You Love Music

Why You Love Music

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