Psychology Of Music

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 424 pages
• Published by: Spencer Press March 15, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1406747661
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1406747669
• Book Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC BY CARL E. SEASHORE, PH. D., LL. D., BC. D., D. LITT. McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON To my comrades in research for the last forty years this volume is affectionately dedicated. npms volume is dedicated to my comrades in research, professors J. and students, for the last forty years. I am writing as a spokes man for them all, attempting to present in high lights the new approaches developed during this period. This involves the right to draw freely from more than one hundred publications emanating from the group. Wherever possible I have named the human being pri marily responsible for the contribution but the text embodies facts which in large part are common stock in the laboratory. In doing the overhead work for all these years, it has been difficult to separate my own ideas from the ideas of collaborators because our policy has been to share ideas with the utmost gener osity. In the interest of condensation and clarity, I have interpreted and classified as much as is consistent with the purpose and, there fore, have not used quotation marks extensively. It is difficult to give proper acknowledgment to all the persons and sources represented. All authors of publications from which substantial units are drawn are mentioned in the text with a super script number which refers to the corresponding number in the bibliography. The sources of illustrations are indicated in the text. Acknowledgment to authors and publishers for permission to use material is herewith gratefully extended. Owing to the nature of the situation, I have counted upon many of my collaborators to read and criticize the manuscript in whole or in part both from the point of view of science and from the point of view of music. The following note from the Music Educator Journal, September, 1937, IB self explanatory In a series of reports from the laboratory-studio for the Psychology of Music, Carl E. Seashore has presented to Journal readers specimens of scientific findings dealing with various phases of the psychology of music. Appearing in the October issue of the Journal will be the tenth in a series, which will deal with the problem of the tempered scale a x PREFACE The Psychology of Musical Talent, 1 7 published by Silver Burdett Company, in 1919, is a monograph which marks a ne v vantage ground in the psychology of music. It covers a restricted field in which it has permanent value and should, therefore, not be revised, but supplemented. In the present volume, I have aimed to avoid duplication of that work to which this is a logical sequel. Concentration in this field of work has been favored by a gen erous attitude on the part of the University of Iowa toward this project and through a series of generous fellowships provided by Mr. George Eastman, the National Research Council, the Guggen heim Foundation, and the Carnegie Foundation. Through a special interest in this subject and such generous financial support, it has been possible to maintain a continuous project through trained investigators, working on a unified program for a generation. The purpose of this book is to stimulate and guide the student of music in scientific observation and reasoning about his art. It is, therefore, not a summary of all the known facts on any subject, but rather a series of flashes illustrating the scientific approach from as many angles as space and material permit in an elementary textbook. Since the book is written for beginners, no technical description of apparatus or method is given except in most elementary general principles. Material for the student to work upon is, however, furnished abundantly. My attitude throughout may be expressed in the invitation, Come with me into the laboratory-studio for the psychology of music and see how the study of science of the art of music works. As in my other text books the motto has been Not psychology but to psychologize. This book has been many years in the making

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Psychology of Music (Paperback) So far there are two reviews preceding mine. One gives the book five stars, the other gives it one. The one star reviewer complains that the book is out of date, and that is true. Unfortunately the author is not in a position to bring it up to date, since he was born in 1866 and is now continuing his research in a different realm. You would be foolish to take everything in this book as the gospel truth, but the quality of this man as a scientist and as a writer is head and shoulders above what we are capable of doing today. "They don't make 'em like this anymore." The field has advanced in the more than 100 years since the author commenced his research, and much of what we have achieved collectively today is the result of successive generations of people standing on Seashore's shoulders. I think this book is still of very great value today, at various levels. As I said above, I won't accept everything in this book at face value, but it is a book worth reading through more than once. In a world full of books that aren't even worth reading through one time, that's saying a lot, especially when you consider that it was published in 1937. The author was seventy years old at the time and you can see a lifetime of effort has gone into it. Comment (1) | | (Report this)