Chapter 1 Introduction
- Overview of Book Contents
- Abiding Controversies
- Recent Areas of Research Growth
Chapter 2 Origins of Music
- Prehistoric Music
- Adaptationist Accounts
- Theories Based on Reproductive Benefits
- Theories Based on Survival Benefits
- Nonadaptationist Accounts
- Precursors to Music
Chapter 3 Musical Building Blocks
- The Elements of Sound
- Periodic Motion
- The Discovery of Music Within Sound
- Sensory Consonance and Dissonance
- Tuning Systems
- Sensitivity to Pitch
- Models of Pitch Perception
- Absolute Pitch
- Timbre
- Reconstructing Music
Chapter 4 Music Acquisition
- Musical Infants
- Music in the Womb
- Investigating Music Perception Among Infants
- Melodic Contour
- Consonance and Dissonance
- Pitch Relations
- Scale Structure
- Phrase Structure
- Harmony
- Key
- Rhythm
- Memory for Music
- Learning and Enculturation
Chapter 5 Perceiving Music Structure
- Arrangements of Sound
- Relative Pitch
- Melodic Contour
- Scale Structure
- Large-Scale Structure
- Melodic Expectancies
- Implicit Memory for Music
- Implied Harmony
- Musical Key
- Implied Key
- Rhythm
Chapter 6 Music and Emotion
- Emotion Work
- Emotion and Cognition
- Theories of Music and Emotion
- Empirical Studies
- Do Listeners Agree on the Emotional Meaning of Music?
- How Do Listeners Respond Emotionally to Music?
- Compositional and Expressive Signals of Emotion
- What Properties of Music Lead to an Emotional Response?
- Is There a Universal Link Between Music and Emotion?
- Sources of Emotion in Music
Chapter 7 Music and the Brain
- What's in a Brain?
- The Search for Music Inside the Brain
- Neurological Disorders
- Techniques of Neuroimaging
- Neuroimaging and Music
- A Rapidly Evolving Field
Chapter 8 Performing Music
- Playing Music
- Acquiring Performance Skill
- Communicating Musical Structure
- Communicating Emotional Meaning
- Singing
- Improvising
- Gestures and Facial Expressions
- Evaluating Performance
- The Craft of the Performer
Chapter 9 Composing Music
- The Radius of Creativity
- Composers and Listeners
- Cognitive Constraints on Composition
- Composing with Multiple Voices
- Where Do New Ideas Come From?
- The Craft of Music Composition
Chapter 10 Music and Other Abilities
- Is Music Unique?
- Short-Term Effects of Music
- Long-Term Benefits of Music
- Educational Implications