PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Amazon Rainforest, Music Psychology, Background Music
8 Dec 2011
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*the reason the reading is not from the textbook is because music cognition does not generally make it into textbooks. It"s from a more popular book and gives you a good idea of the fundamentals. It was written by a professor at mcgill. It"s a fairly new field; a lot of the research has been done in the last 20 years. The very first textbook about music cognition was published this year. First of all, we will look at why people study music in the first place: the first thing is that music is really old! Some of the oldest found instruments are bone and wooden flutes. The ones on the left are 7000-8000 years old, found at a site in china. The one on the right, this is disputed, it is said to be between 43,000 and 82,000 years old. Just to give you an idea, homo sapiens were thought to have evolved between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago.
