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not read this book if you are looking for an introductory text into music psychology, This is a great resource to reference all the theory and research accumulated in the field, but many chapters are difficult for someone not in music psychology to understand.
To read the entirely of the book and understand it completely, you need to have a breadth of knowledge in neuroscience, music, physics, and more.
The summary of the book implies that the intended audience it broader than it actually is, and there is no introduction to steer that expectation or explain any part of the book and its purpose.
This is a great book for researchers IN the field of music psychology, but not much so for those looking to get into the field.
A stateoftheart overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field.
This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive stateoftheart overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition.
Eminent scholars from a range of disciplines, employing a variety

of methodologies, describe important findings from core areas of the field, including music cognition, the neuroscience of music, musical performance, and music therapy.
The book can be used as a textbook for courses in music cognition, auditory perception, science of music, psychology of music, philosophy of music, and music therapy, and as a reference for researchers, teachers, and musicians.


The Foundations in Music Psychology's sections cover music perception music cognition music, neurobiology, and evolution musical training, ability, and performance and musical experience in everyday life.
Chapters treat such topics as pitch, rhythm, and timbre musical expectancy, musicality, musical disorders, and absolute pitch brain processes involved in music perception, crossspecies studies of music cognition, and music across cultures improvisation, the assessment of musical ability, and singing and music and emotions, musical preferences, and music therapy.


Contributors
Fleur Bouwer, Peter Cariani, Laura K, Cirelli, Annabel J. Cohen, Lola L. Cuddy, Shannon de L'Etoile, Jessica A, Grahn, David M. Greenberg, Bruno Gingras, Henkjan Honing, Lorna S, Jakobson, Ji Chul Kim, Stefan Koelsch, Edward W, Large, Miriam Lense, Daniel Levitin, Charles J, Limb, Psyche Loui, Stephen McAdams, Lucy M, McGarry, Malinda J. McPherson, Andrew J. Oxenham, Caroline Palmer, Aniruddh Patel, EveMarie Quintin, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Edward Roth, Frank A, Russo, Rebecca Scheurich, Kai Siedenburg, Avital Sternin, Yanan Sun, William F, Thompson, Renee Timmers, Mark Jude Tramo, Sandra E, Trehub, Michael W. Weiss, Marcel Zentner.