Research Catalog

Title

The psychology of music : a survey for teacher and musician / by Max Schoen.

Author

Schoen, Max, 1888-1959.

Publication

New York : The Ronald Press Company, [1940]

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Details

Description

vii, 258 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subject

• Music > Psychological aspects
• Musical ability > Testing
• Ability
• Music > psychology
• Aptitude
• Ability
• Music > Psychological aspects
• Musical ability > Testing
• Music > Psychology

Note

• ‏נושא ישן: Music - psychological aspects.

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of works cited" p. 235-240. "Selected bibliography": p. 241-251.

Contents

Part I. The psychology of music. The psychology of tone. Tones and noises ; Simple and complex tones ; What we hear in tones ; Pitch ; Pitch discrimination ; Some other phenomena of pitch ; Loudness ; The intensity threshold for hearing ; The aesthetics of tonal intensity ; Tonal quality ; Duration ; Extensity -- Tones in successive combination: melody. What an interval is ; Static and dynamic intervals ; Interval discrimination ; Melody ; The nature of melodic form ; The factors of tonal relationship ; The nature of melodic finality -- Tones in simultaneous combination: harmony. The theory of fusion ; Other theories of consonance ; Concords and discords -- The varieties of musical effects: ideational. The effect of tones and keys ; The effects of intervals and motifs ; The effects of musical compositions -- The varieties of musical effects: affective. Mood effects ; The effects of major and minor ; The effects of the structural elements of music ; Physiological and medicinal effects of music ; The sources of musical enjoyment -- The types of musical experience. Evidences from empirical literature ; Evidences from theoretical literature ; Evidences from experimental literature -- The aesthetic experience in music. The views of aestheticians ; Conclusions from experimental studies ; The basis of the musical response ; Tests of musical appreciation ; The tests -- Part II. The psychology of musical aptitudes. The nature of musicality ; Musicality and musical talent ; The nature of talent ; An inventory of musical talent ; Primary factors ; Secondary factors -- Tests of musicality and talent. Tests not standardized ; Standardized tests ; The seashore tests ; The Schoen battery ; The Kwalwasser-Dykema tests ; The Ortmann battery ; The validity of the tests ; The validity of the seashore tests ; Other studies of the seashore battery ; Studies of the Schoen, Kwalwasser-Dykema, and Ortmann batteries ; Suggested uses of the tests -- The psychology of artistic singing. Pitch intonation in artistic singing ; The vibrato ; The nature of the vibrato ; The significance of the vibrato ; Further studies of the vibrato ; Studies on some other phases of artistic singing -- The growth of musical powers. The development of the singing voice ; Melodic invention and melodic reproduction ; The development of pitch recognition ; The development of the harmonic sense ; The development of the response to music ; Types of listeners among children.

ISBN

• 9990944296
• 9789990944297

LCCN

• 40014596
• x280203941

OCLC

• ocm00372568
• 372568
• SCSB-110736

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library