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  2. Consonance and dissonance - Wikipedia

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    In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability, although there is broad acknowledgement that this depends also on familiarity and musical expertise. [1]

  3. Harmony - Wikipedia

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    Drawing both from music theoretical traditions and the field of psychoacoustics, its perception in large part consists of recognizing and processing consonance, a concept whose precise definition has varied throughout history, but is often associated with simple mathematical ratios between coincident pitch frequencies. In the physiological ...

  4. Psychology of music - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of music, or music psychology, may be regarded as a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology.It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.

  5. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    Music psychology or the psychology of music may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behavior and experience , including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.

  6. Music and emotion - Wikipedia

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    Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...

  7. Category:Music psychology - Wikipedia

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    Music psychology uses the tools of musicology and psychology to explain and understand musical behavior and ... Consonance and dissonance; Culture in music cognition; D.

  8. Psychoacoustics - Wikipedia

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    It is the branch of science studying the psychological responses associated with sound including noise, speech, and music. Psychoacoustics is an interdisciplinary field including psychology, acoustics, electronic engineering, physics, biology, physiology, and computer science. [1]

  9. Psychoanalysis and music - Wikipedia

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    According to some music therapists, the use of Music in the therapeutic environment has an affinity with psychoanalysis in that it addresses obstructions in the mind that might be causing stress, psychic tension, and even physical illness. Music has been used, in conjunction with a psychoanalytic approach, to address symptoms of a variety of ...