**How does music evoke awe or spine-tingling chills? This pioneering study draws on cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and music theory to understand the link between expectation and our emotions.“A fascinating journey into the inner workings of music and how it tickles the human mind.” —Nature**The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of his experimental efforts to understand how mu...

La condotta delle voci è l’arte musicale della combinazione dei suoni nel tempo. L’insegnamento di questa fondamentale tecnica di composizione è tuttora prevalentemente basato sulla scrittura a più parti nello stile del corale barocco, circostanza che porta molti musicisti a domandarsi perché, in un’epoca di sconfinato pluralismo stilistico, si continui a fare riferimento a una teoria tanto vetusta e limitata. Attingendo a decenni di importanti ricerche scientifiche, in questo libro David ...

An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general.The Science of Sadness proposes an original scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia, advocating a unique ethological approach to these familiar, woeful emotions. One of the leading scholars in the psychology of music and music cognition, David Huron draws on hundreds of studies from physiology, m...

An accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. In this book, David Huron offers an accessible account of the cognitive and perceptual foundations for this practice. Drawing on decades of scientific research, including his own award-winning work, Huron offers explanations for many...