McAdams, Stephen - Perception and Cognition of Music

Bridges the disciplinary abyss between musicology, music theory, and music analysis, creating transdisciplinary dialogue
• Presents selected important achievements in music psychology and examines not only the challenges that the methods and results present in the face of criticisms from music scholars, but also challenges that music scholars face in their own approaches to musical phenomena
• Explores the possibilities of using music analysis to develop scientific hypotheses for experimentation, but also as a means to interpret empirical data

Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures presents revised and updated materials delivered in four distinguished lectures at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne and the Universite de Montreal, originally published in French.