All examples of notated music can be heard on the web. Levitin’s book this is your brain on music Music and the psychology of expectation offers a rich, new interdisciplinary theory of musical response
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It provides an integrated and insightful survey of ideas and empirical findings that inform an understanding of musical expectancy.
Several chapters are devoted to using the theory of expectation to explain a range of phenomena related to musical structure and music perception.
The psychological theory of expectation that david huron proposes in sweet anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. Perhaps in awareness of this discrepancy, huron begins his book by laying out a five‐stage model of expectation that he calls the itpra theory, the name being an acronym for ‘imagination, tension, prediction, reaction, appraisal.’ In his book sweet anticipation As a cognitive psychologist, i find huron’s proposals for expectancy mechanisms and their possible evolutionary origin convincing and novel
Indeed, throughout the book musical issues are connected with human psychology in a way that reflects a deep and nuanced understanding of both disciplines. In unpacking the process of expectation, long understood to play a crucial role in our emotional response to music, david huron makes a powerful case for a musicology that is empirically informed and statistically based. In a recent review of daniel j
