1st Edition

Music Psychology

Edited By Daphne Tan, Ernst Kurth Copyright 2022
306 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The first edition of Ernst Kurth’s Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931, and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music. Time has hardly diminished Kurth’s standing as an original scholar with a distinctive point of view. Music theorists, both in Europe and North America, regard him as an... Read more
 

Section 1. Tone Psychology and Music Psychology

Chapter 1. Initial consideration: the phenomenon of tone

Chapter 2. The structure of the experiences of tone

Chapter 3. Areas and boundaries of music psychology

 

Section 2. Force, Space, Matter

Chapter 1. Energy from a psychological perspective

Chapter 2. The problem of the image of motion [Bewegungsbild]

Chapter 3. Psychic and physical energy

Chapter 4. The musical phenomenon of space

Chapter 5. The matter-illusion

 

Section 3. Phenomenal Forms of Sonic Material

Chapter 1. Harmony [Zusammenklang]

Chapter 2. The Dynamism of Sound

Chapter 3. Chordal Motion

 

Section 4. Phenomenal Forms of Movement

Chapter 1. On the psychology of the concept of form

Chapter 2. Basic psychic functions in melodic formation

Chapter 3. Rhythmic continuous forms

 

Biography

Ernst Kurth (1 June 1886, in Vienna – 2 August 1946, in Bern) was a Swiss music theorist of Austrian origin.