The course readings will following the schedule given below.
Aristotle (384-322 BCE). De Anima (On the Soul). De Audibilibus (On Hearing). Politics (On the Purposes of Music). Excerpts. [6 pages]
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ("Vitruvius") (circa 25 BCE). De Architectura (On Architecture). Excerpt. [7 pages]
Anicius Manlius Saverinus Boethius ("Boethius") (480-524). De Institutione Musicae Excerpt. [5 pages]
Galileo Galilei (1638) [1564-1642]. Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Excerpt. [21 pages]
Marin Mersenne (1636) [1564-1642]. Harmonie Universelle. Description in F.V. Hunt, Origins in Acoustics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978; pp.82-93. [12 pages]
Joseph Sauveur (1701) [1653-1716]. Système Général des Intervales du Son. (General system of sound intervals.) Memoirs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, pp. 297-300, 347-354. Excerpt. [7 pages]
Ernst Florens Chladni (1787) [1756-1827]. Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges. (Discoveries in the Theory of Sound). Excerpt. [10 pages]
Felix Savart (1830) [1791-1841]. On the Sensitivity of the Ear. Excerpt from Johann Christian Poggendorf's Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Vol. 20, pp.290-296. [7 pages]
Required reading: 66 pages.
Helmholtz, H. L. von (1863/1878). [1821-1894] Die Lehre von der Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik Braunschweig: Verlag F. Vieweg & Sohn. Translated as: On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music. (1878); second English edition, New York: Dover Pub., 1954. Excerpts. (pp. Margenau biographical sketch of Helmholtz [pp. i-vi] Prefaces [pp. vi-viii] pp. 1-6; 10-11; 20-27; 42-51; 68-69; 80-83; 116) [52 pages]
Required reading: 52 pages.
Helmholtz, H. L. von (1863/1878). [1821-1894] Die Lehre von der Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik Braunschweig: Verlag F. Vieweg & Sohn. Translated as: On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music. (1878); second English edition, New York: Dover Pub., 1954. Excerpts. (pp. 152-173; 226-227; 229-233; 359-371) [31 pages]
Green, Burdette & Butler, David (2002). From acoustics to Tonpsychologie. In: T. Christensen (ed.) The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 246-271. [26 pages]
Required reading: 57 pages.
Seashore, Carl Emil (1938) [1866-1949] The Psychology of Music. New York: McGraw-Hill. (pp. 1-16, 23-52, 125-133) [55 pages]
Required reading: 55 pages.
Seashore, Carl Emil (1938) [1866-1949] The Psychology of Music. New York: McGraw-Hill. (pp. 138-140, 149, 161-163, 173-177, 178-179, 233-235, 246-248, 302-311, 312-320, 373-382) [49 pages]
Required reading: 49 pages.
Francés, R. (1958/1988). La perception de la musique. Translated by W.J. Dowling as The Perception of Music. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988. (pp. ix-xii, 9, 11-16, 116-127, 180-188, 278-279, 283, 289-298, 318, 320-323, 328-333, 337-341, 348-352) [63 pages]
Required reading: 63 pages (many pages are figures).
Dunsby, E. (1983). Explaining Meyer. Music Analysis, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.209-218. [10 pages]
Proctor, G. (1989). A Classic Turn of Phrase: Music and the Psychology of Convention by Robert O. Gjerdingen. Intégral. Vol. 3, pp.171-191. [20 pages]
Zbikowski, L. (1993). The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures: The Implication-Realization Model by Eugene Narmour. Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 177-206. [26 pages]
Gjerdingen, R. (1992). The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures: The Implication-Realization Model by Eugene Narmour. NOTES, Vol. 49, pp.588-590. [3 pages]
Russ, M. (1992). The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures: The Implication-Realization Model. Music & Letters Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 450-454. [5 pages]
Required reading: 64 pages.
Shepard, Roger N. (1964). Circularity in judgments of relative pitch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 36, pp. 2346-2353. [8 pages]
Saldanha, E.L. & Corso, J.F. (1964). Timbre cues and the identification of musical instruments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 36, pp. 2021-2026. [6 pages]
Plomp, R. & Levelt W.J.M. (1965). Tonal consonance and critical bandwidth. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 548-560. [13 pages]
Greenwood, D.D. (1961). Critical bandwidth and the frequency coordinates of the basilar membrane. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 1344-1356. [2 page excerpt: pp.1351-1352]
Krumhansl, Carol L. & Kessler, E.J. (1982). Tracing the dynamic changes in perceived tonal organization in a spatial representation of musical keys. Psychological Review, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 334-368. [16 pages]
Povel, D-J. & Essens, P. (1985). Perception of temporal patterns. Music Perception, Vol. 2, pp. 411-440. [30 pages]
Required reading: 75 pages.
Otto E. Laske (1988). Introduction to cognitive musicology. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 43-57. [15 pages]
John A. Sloboda (1985). The Musical Mind; The Cognitive Psychology of Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Preface (pp.v-vii); Chapter 1 ("Music as a Cognitive Skill" pp. 1-10); Chapter 7 ("Musical Mind in Context: Culture and Biology"; pp.239-268. [30 pages]
Fred Lerdahl & Ray Jackendoff (1983). A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [XX pages]
Required reading: ?? pages.
Diana Deutsch (1984). Editorial. Music Perception, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-2. [2 pages]
Jonathan Kramer (1988). Chapter 11.1 Limitations of the Psychology of Music. (pp.322-330) The Time of Music. New York: Schirmer Books. [9 pages]
David Huron (1995). Nicholas Cook, "Music, Imagination, and Culture." [Review of] Music Perception, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 473-481. Text. [9 pages]
Carol Krumhansl (1995). Music Psychology and Music Theory: Problems and Prospects. Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 53-57; 78-80. [8 pages]
Required reading: 27 pages.
Total required reading: ??? pages (average of ?? pages per week).