The Psychology of Music
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The psychology of music is a subfield of psychology that addresses questions of how the mind responds to, imagines, controls the performance of, and evaluates music. The history of this sub field has been greatly influenced by the major trends and develop ments in the parent discipline, and the organization of this chapter follows the tradi tional rubrics of that history. Earlier in the twentieth century there was a frequent distinction made between Tonpsychologie (the study of vibration, the ear, and the sen sation of sound) and Musikpsychologie (the study of music as a form of cognition). Though the distinction seems less clearcut today, this chapter recognizes its histori cal force and focuses on the latter category, with the former receiving extended treat ment in Chapter 9, passim. Since at least the seventeenth century, proponents of one or another theory of music have frequently used the psychology of music as a touchstone. They assert propositions in the general form of “musical relationship has a valuation because there exists a rel evant phenomenon or principle in the psychology of music.” For example, one might view Rameau as having asserted that “the fifth and third, as progressions of the funda mental bass have the qualities of being good, natural, and fitting because Sauveur and other acousticians have shown these intervals to be present in every musical tone, as a macrocosm within a microcosm.” Or Riemann could be viewed as having asserted that “harmonic relationships based on progressions of a major third or perfect fifth between the chordal ‘roots’ have the qualities of being directly intelligible and foundational because Helmholtz and other physiologists have shown that the frequency analysis of the inner ear privileges these intervals.” Developments in the psychology of music thus shift and reestablish the ground on which are based propositions in the theory of music. As a less wellknown example of how the discourse of a music theory can have its roots in psychological principles and premises, one might consider a treatise on harmony (1862) by Abramo Basevi.1 Basevi, widely recognized as one the nineteenth century’s most astute critics of Italian opera, and of Verdi in particular, felt a growing divide between theoretical precepts handed down from the eighteenth century and the
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تاریخ انتشار 2007