Music Cognition: The Basics

Henkjan Honing is professor of Music Cognition at both the faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam and member elect of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"Insights from one of the leading researchers working at the intersection of music, psychology, and computer science."–Dan Levitin, author of This is your brain on music"A graceful and precise introduction into the intricacy of what ordinary humans manage to learn about music, naturally and automatically, just by listening."–Gary Marcus, author of Guitar Zero"Honing demonstrates that ordinary listeners, whether children or adults, are a lot more musically savvy than they think they are."–Sandra Trehub, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

• Part 1: De do do do, de da da da | The tone of speech and music 1. First Listening Experiences 2. The Illiterate Listener Part 2: Ooh-ooh-ooh | The Magic of Music 3. Music as Mystery 4. Music as Language 5. Music as Sound Part 3: Hmmm . . . | Music and Musicality 6. We’re Musical Creatures 7. Measuring the Beat 8. Do You Recognize this Melody? Part 4: Tá-ta-ta-tá-ta | Music as Cognition 9. The Secret of the "Loud Rest" 10. The Secret of the Details 11. The Secret, Mapped Out Part 5: Aha! | Music in Our Minds 12. The Musical Listener 13. Listening and Learning 14. Encore