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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

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The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music ev
Voice Leading
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Pages: 273
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Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-02 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. This work offers an accessible account of the cognitive and perceptual foundations of voice lead
Emotion and Meaning in Music
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Leonard B. Meyer
Categories: Music
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"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused no
The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Jill Conner Browne
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-30 - Publisher: Crown Archetype

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To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has bee
The Origins of Musicality
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Henkjan Honing
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-20 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as