音乐心理学是一门跨学科的心理学学科，主要研究通过心理功能来诠释音乐。这种解释通过感知、记忆、创造、表演和对音乐的反应，导致了音乐的特性。特别地，这本书通过讨论不同的声音特征，如响度、音高和音色，以及这些属性之间的相互作用，提供了对音乐音调感知的概述。通过计算机建模，探讨了计算机资源对音乐心理研究的影响。在此基础上，建立了音高感知、分组、语音分离和谐波分析模型。本书进一步讨论了音乐在社会和情感环境中的发展，并提出了音乐训练可以提高个人歌唱能力的方法。本书可作为感性和认知心理学家、神经科学家和音乐家的参考资料。也可作为音乐心理学高级课程的教材。
The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through mental function. This interpretation leads to the characterization of music through perceiving, remembering, creating, performing, and responding to music. In particular, the book provides an overview of the perception of musical tones by discussing different sound characteristics, like loudness, pitch and timbre, together with interaction between these attributes. It also discusses the effect of computer resources on the psychological study of music through computational modeling. In this way, models of pitch perception, grouping and voice separation, and harmonic analysis were developed. The book further discusses musical development in social and emotional contexts, and it presents ways that music training can enhance the singing ability of an individual. The book can be used as a reference source for perceptual and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and musicians. It can also serve as a textbook for advanced courses in the psychological study of music.
