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Applied Musicology : Using Zygonic Theory to Inform Music Education, Therapy, and Psychology Re...

ISBN: 9780199607631 | 019960763X

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2013

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Summary Table of Contents

Applied Musicology explores and demonstrates how musicology can influence and inform the psychological study of music. Including chapters on a range of topics including, perfect pitch, music and autistic savants, and anticipatory processes in music, the book establishes and lays the foundations for a new field of enquiry

Although research in music psychology, education and therapy has expanded exponentially in the 21st century, there is something of a 'black hole' around which much of the discourse circles: music i... MOREtself. While writers have largely been occupied with what people think about musical engagement, the little musical analysis that exists has tended to be at a low level compared to the sophisticated non-musical exploration that is present. This highlights the tenuous connection betweenmusical enquiry in the context of the humanities and that occurring within the social sciences, the one exception being the partial intersection of music theory and psychology. Here, however, progress has largely been in one direction, with something of the objectivity that characterizes psychologicalresearch reading across to music analysis, and taking the form of what has been called 'empirical musicology'. 'Applied Musicology' takes a further, reciprocal step, in which certain of the techniques of empirical musicology (in particular, the author's 'zygonic' theory) are used to inform thinking in the domains of music-psychological, educational and therapeutic research. Within the book, the authors sketches out a new, interdisciplinary sphere of endeavour, for which the term 'applied musicology' is coined. The book adopts a phenomenological, inductive approach, using the analysis of hundreds ofreal-life examples of musical engagement and interaction in order to build new theories of musical intentionality and influence, and to shed new light on our understanding of aspects of music perception and cognition. Intended for those in the fields of music psychology, music education, and musicology, Applied Musicology will lay the foundations upon which a new category of interdisciplinary work will be built.

The fields of music psychology/education and music therapy have grown significantly in the past two decades. Curiously though, they have developed somewhat in isolation from the humanities, and more specifically, the study of music itself 'musicology'. While attempts have been made (by Eric Clarke and Nicholas Cook) to use psychological research to help our understanding of musicology, the relationship has not been reciprocated. Applied Musicologyexplores and demonstrates how musicology can influence and inform the psychological study of music within the social sciences. Within the book, Professor Ockelford establishes and lays the foundations for a new field of enquiry - 'applied musicology'. The book includes chapters on a range of topics including,perfect pitch, music and autistic savants, and anticipatory processes in music. It is of interest for students and researchers in music psychology and musicology.

Foreword
Preface
Rationale and Theoretical Context
1. Introduction
2. Music Theory and the Zygonic Approach
Applying Zygonic Theory to Investigate Music Education, Therapy and Psychological Assessment
3. Gauging Intentionality in Musical Interaction in Educational, Therapeutic and Diagnostic Contexts
4. From Intentionality to Influence: Gauging the Impact of One Performer on Another in Improvised Musical Dialogues
5. Modelling Musical Development in Children with Complex Needs: Th... MORE

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