PSYC56H3 Lecture Notes - General Idea
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Office hours: thursday, 1:00 pm 3:00 pm. Class times and locations: wednesday, 9:00 am 11:00 am, hw 214. This course studies the perceptual and cognitive processing involved in the psychology of music. The general idea is to acquaint students with the basic concepts and issues involved in the understanding of musical passages. The focus of this course is on the perception and cognition of musical materials, taking as its starting point the music listener as a gatherer and interpreter of information from the environment. This is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession. Levitan"s book is a very readable, extremely interesting source, although it is limited in terms of the detail of the scientific studies conducted on the various topics. Accordingly, to supplement this aspect of the course there will be a series of required complementary readings for each week that will be more explicitly focussed on course content.
