Description Syllabus

BCS 260: Music and the Mind

Prerequisites: One semester of collegiate music theory for majors (MUR 111, TH 101) or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring

About this course:

Introduction to the discipline of music cognition. Topics include empirical methods, psycho-acoustic principles, influence of Gestalt psychology, music and language, metric and tonal hierarchies, music and the brain, aspects of musical development, and research on musical memory, expectation, and emotion.

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