Book description
Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures presents revised and updated materials delivered in four distinguished lectures at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne and the Universite de Montreal, originally published in French.
The book bridges the fields of music psychology, music theory, and music analysis by way of a consideration of…
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