David Huron is Distinguished Professor in the School of Music and in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Ohio State University; he is author of Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (MIT Press).
""Sweet Anticipation" demands careful attention from music scholars
who still believe that experimental psychology is too primitive to
speak to their concerns. 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. Even those who
question whether musical cognition is as strongly determined as he
suggests will be challenged by his questioning of basic theoretical
assumptions and won over by his continual emphasis on pleasure as a
goal, perhaps the goal, of musical experience."--William Benjamin,
Professor of Music, University of British Columbia
"David Huron draws on evolutionary theory and statistical learning
to situate the particular issue of musical expectation within the
study of human expectation in general. The result is a widely
knowledgeable and engagingly written book that will serve as a
landmark in the cognitive science of music."--Fred Lerdahl, Fritz
Reiner Professor of Music, Columbia University
"
& quot; David Huron draws on evolutionary theory and statistical
learning to situate the particular issue of musical expectation
within the study of human expectation in general. The result is a
widely knowledgeable and engagingly written book that will serve as
a landmark in the cognitive science of music.& quot; -- Fred
Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Music, Columbia University
& quot; Sweet Anticipation demands careful attention from music
scholars who still believe that experimental psychology is too
primitive to speak to their concerns. 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.
Even those who question whether musical cognition is as strongly
determined as he suggests will be challenged by his questioning of
basic theoretical assumptions and won over by his continual
emphasis on pleasure as a goal, perhaps the goal, of musical
experience.& quot; -- William Benjamin, Professor of Music,
University of British Columbia
" "Sweet Anticipation" demands careful attention from music
scholars who still believe that experimental psychology is too
primitive to speak to their concerns. 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.
Even those who question whether musical cognition is as strongly
determined as he suggests will be challenged by his questioning of
basic theoretical assumptions and won over by his continual
emphasis on pleasure as a goal, perhaps the goal, of musical
experience." --William Benjamin, Professor of Music, University of
British Columbia
" David Huron draws on evolutionary theory and statistical learning
to situate the particular issue of musical expectation within the
study of human expectation in general. The result is a widely
knowledgeable and engagingly written book that will serve as a
landmark in the cognitive science of music." --Fred Lerdahl, Fritz
Reiner Professor of Music, Columbia University
--Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Music, Columbia
University
--William Benjamin, Professor of Music, University of British
Columbia
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