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In the rich tradition of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series, the present volume continues to provide an accessible overview of a relatively new field of psychoacoustic and hearing research. The field of central interest in this volume involves perception of musical sound patterns. In keeping with the goals of the Handbook, it presents a set of chapters that reflect the current status of scientific scholarship related to music perception. Each chapter aims at synthesizing a range of findings associated with each of several major research areas in the field of music perception. Thus, topics central to this field involve pitch perception, responses to harmony/tonality, tempo and rhythm, emotion and music, and finally melody recognition. These chapters have been crafted to present conceptual, but not necessarily exhaustive, reviews of research addressing the major issues in the field of music perception. The dominant issues, hypotheses, and theories that drive research within each topical area are presented along with relevant experimental findings. The aim is to introduce this growing research area to new investigators and established researchers unfamiliar with music perception scholarship.
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Jones, M.R. (2010). Music Perception: Current Research and Future Directions. In: Riess Jones, M., Fay, R., Popper, A. (eds) Music Perception. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 36. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6114-3_1
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