Readership: Students and researchers in music psychology and music education, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
John Sloboda, Professor of Psychology, Keele University, UK
Part A: Cognitive Processes 1: The psychology of music reading 2: Experimental studies of music reading: a review 3: The uses of space in music notation 4: Immediate recall of melodies 5: Cognition and real music: the psychology of music comes of age 6: Psychological structures in music: core research 1980-1990 7: Book review of "Language, Music and Mind" 8: Does music mean anything? Part B: Emotion and Motivation 9: Music as a language 10: Music psychology and the composer 11: Empirical studies of emotional response to music 12: Emotional responses to music: a review 13: Musical performance and emotion: issues and developments Part C: Talent and skill development 14: Musical expertise 15: Musical ability 16: The acquisition of music performance expertise 17: Are some children more gifted for music than others? Part D: Music in the real world 18: Everyday uses of music 19: Music: where cognition and emotion meet 20: Music and worship: a psychologist's perspective 21: Emotion, functionality, and the everyday experience of music 22: The sound of music versus the essence of music 23: Assessing music psychology research