The Effects of Music: A series of Essays

by Max Schoen

Overview

This is Volume XVIII of twenty-one of collection of works on Cognitive Psychology. Initially published in 1927 it offers a collection of essays on the effects of music on the listerner.The book is at once a response and a challenge. It is a response to the inquiry which any thoughtful listener makes, “ What is this music doing to me? ” A t the same time it is a challenge to science to explain more adequately than has as yet been done the nature and the mysteries of musical effects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415209731
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/24/1999
Series:	International Library of Psychology
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, W. V. Bingham; Part 1 Types of Listeners to Music; Chapter 2 Individual Differences in Listening to Music, Charles S. Myers; Chapter 3 Types of Listeners. Genetic Considerations, Otto Ortmann; Part 2 The Sources of Musical Enjoyment; Chapter 4 An Experimental Study of the Nature of Musical Enjoyment, Esther L. Gatewood; Chapter 5 An Experimental Study of the Nature of Musical Enjoyment (continued), Esther L. Gatewood; Chapter 6 The Sources and Nature of the Affective Reaction to Instrumental Music, Margaret Floy Washburn, George L. Dickinson; Part 3 The Mood Effects of Music; Chapter 7 The Mood Effects of Music, Max Schoen, Esther L. Gatewood; Chapter 8 Problems Related to the Mood Effects of Music, Max Schoen, Esther L. Gatewood; Part 4 The Organic Effects of Music; Chapter 9 Effects of Music Upon Electro-Cardiograms and Blood Pressure, Ida H. Hyde; Part 5 The Effects of Repetition and Familiarity; Chapter 10 The Effect of Immediate Repetition on the Pleasantness or Unpleasantness of Music, Margaret Floy Washburn, Margaret S. Child, Theodora Mead Abel; Chapter 11 The Immediate and Long-Time Effects of Classical and Popular Phonograph Selections, A.R. Gilliland, H. T. Moore; Chapter 12 The Effect on a Musical Programme of Familiarity and of Sequence of Selections, June E. Downey, George E. Knapp; Part 6 Effects of Music Besides Auditory and Organic; Chapter 13 Non-Auditory Effects of Music, Otto Ortmann; Chapter 14 A Study in the Use of Similes for Describing Music and its Effects, Esther L. Gatewood;