Sweet Anticipation - Table of Contents

March 2008
7 x 9, 480 pp., 108 illus.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-58278-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-58278-0

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Sweet Anticipation
Music and the Psychology of Expectation
David Huron

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (44 KB)	vii

	Acknowledgments	xi

1	Introduction Sample Chapter - Download PDF (109 KB)	1

2	Surprise	19

3	Measuring Musical Expectation	41

4	Auditory Learning	59

5	Statistical Properties of Music	73

6	Heuristic Listening	91

7	Mental Representation of Expectation (I)	101

8	Prediction Effect	131

9	Tonality	143

10	Expectation in Time	175

11	Genres, Schemas, and Firewalls	203

12	Mental Representation of Expectation (II)	219

13	Creating Predictability	239

14	Creating Surprise	269

15	Creating Tension	305

16	Expecting the Unexpected	331

17	A Sense of Future	355

	Notes	381

	Glossary	409



	References	423

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (79 KB)	449

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