Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Manfred Clynes
  • Foreword / Juan G. Roederer
  • Part I. Concerning the language of music
  • Music, mind, and meaning / Marvin Minsky
  • Brain mechanism in music : prolegomena for a theory of the meaning of meaning / Karl H. Pribram
  • Physical and neuropsychological foundations of music : the basic questions / Juan G. Roederer
  • The living quality of music :neurobiologic basis of communicating feeling / Manfred Clynes and Nigel Nettheim
  • Grammatical parallel between music and language / Ray Jackendoff and Fred Lerdahl
  • Organizational processes in music / Diana Deutsch
  • Part II. Music and neurobiologic function
  • Speech, song, and emotions / Johan Sundberg
  • Prosody and musical rhythm are controlled by the speech hemisphere / Hans M. Borchgevink
  • Perception and performance of musical rhythm / Alf Gabrielsson
  • Neurobiologic functions of rhythm, time and pulse in music / Manfred Clynes and Janice Walker
  • The judgment of musical intervals / Horst-Peter Hesse
  • Affective versus analytic perception of musical intervals / Scott Makeig
  • Two channel pitch perception / Leon von Noorden
  • Spectral-pitch pattern : a concept representing the tonal features of sounds / Gerhard Stoll
  • Spectral fusion and the creation of auditory images / Stephen McAdams
  • The perceptual inset of musical tones / Joos Vos and Rudolf Rasch
  • The pitch set as a level of description for studying musical pitch perception / Gerald J. Balzano
  • Part III. Concerning music and computers
  • Impact of computers on music : an outline / Ernst Terhardt
  • Electronic music : a bridge between psychoacoustics and music / William Hartmann
  • A note
  • new music and neurobiologic research : can they meet? / Richard Toop
  • A computer model of music recognition / Martin Piszczalski and Bernard A. Galler.