The Psychology of Music

by John Davies and John Booth Davies

Book Overview

What happens when we listen to music? Why are certain forms pleasing and others not? John Davies was both a psychologist and a talented musician and The Psychology of Music, originally published in 1978, explores the nature of man's eternal need for, and love of, music. Drawing on current research in psychology and social psychology at the time, he explores the processes beneath this love affair in an easy and fluent style liberally punctuated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032943769
• ISBN13: 9781032943763
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages