Table of Contents

List of illustrationsAcknowledgments1. The art and science of music psychology2. The biological origins of music3. Music as language4. Listening in time5. The psychology of music performance6. Human musicality7. The appetite for music8. The future of the psychology of musicReferencesFurther ReadingIndex

About the Author

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (2013) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory and the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. She has been a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.

Reviews

"[The Psychology of Music] is a vivid account of a theoretically intricate field, rich in pertinent examples. Margulisâs excellent survey may be read as an invitation to be more open to other fields of investigation and disciplines that approach the field of musicology." -- Psychology of Music