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1. Materials for psychology course for Music Majors
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:20:55 -0500
From: Matthew McCabe <
mccabem@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Materials for psychology course for Music Majors
hi all --
i'm in the process of developing my first music psychology class here at
CSU for this coming Spring semester, and i thought i would ask a really
loaded question:
can anyone recommend introductory-level materials (journal articles
or online resources preferable) that i can use to bring undergraduate
music majors up to speed on general psychology and auditory perception
topics?
the reason i ask is this: the majority of them will have never seen
anything like this before since the course is for music majors. our
school is very performance-oriented, and it wouldn't surprise me if i had
to explain things like the physics of a vibrating string and explain what
an overtone is during the first week... time i don't want to squander.
i'm looking for easy-to-understand articles on the fundamentals --
auditory perception, cognitive psychology, the scientific method, things
like that. we will be addressing a variety of topics, but i haven't quite
nailed down specifically which yet. in all likelihood we will do things
like emotion, memory, and musical meaning, but i need to see how much time
i have once we get past the basics.
if you've taught a course like this before, please let me know what you
have used. i've already chosen our textbook -- William Forde Thompson's
"Music, Thought, and Feeling" -- which I like very much. i think the
students will enjoy it if i present it the right way! many of them have
never approached music in this way before and i'm looking forward to
messing them up a bit :)
best,
m
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matthew mccabe <
mccabem@xxxxxxx>
visiting assistant professor / music tech :: columbus state university
ph.d. candidate :: music composition :: uf college of fine arts
lab member :: reilly cognition and language lab :: uf phhp
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