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The effects of music : a series of essays / edited by Max Schoen ; with 8 half-tone illustrations.

Author/creator Schoen, Max, 1888-1959
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLondon : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. ; New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1927.
Descriptionix, 273 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations, music, plates, diagrams ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method ; 205
International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method ; 205. ^A239004
Contents Introduction / W. V. Bingham -- Section I. Types of listeners to music. Individual differences in listening to music / Charles S. Myers -- Types of listeners. Genetic considerations / Otto Ortman -- Section II. The sources of musical enjoyment. An experimental study of the nature of musical enjoyment / Esther L. Gatewood -- The sources and nature of the affective reaction to instrumental music / Margaret Floy Washburn and George L. Dickinson -- Section III. The mood effects of music. The mood effects of music / Max Schoen and Esther L. Gatewood -- Problems related to the mood effects of music / Max Schoen and Esther L. Gatewood -- Section IV. The organic effects of music. Effects of music upon electro-cardiograms and blood pressure / Ida M. Hyde -- Section V. The effects of repetition and familiarity. The effects of immediate repetition on the pleasantness or unpleasantness of music / Margaret Floy Washburn, Margaret S. Child and Theodora Mead Abel -- The immediate and long-time effects of classical and popular phonograph selections / A. R. Gilliland and H. T. Moore -- The effect of a musical programme of familiarity and of sequence of selections / June E. Downey and George E. Knapp -- Section VI. The effects of music besides auditory and organic. Visual, kinaesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory effects of music / Otto Ortman -- A study in the use of similes for describing music and its effects / Esther L. Gatewood.
Abstract Essays chosen from among the papers submitted in a competition conducted by the American psychological association in 1921 for the most meritorious research on the effects of music.
General noteIncludes indexes.
LCCN 27023372

Available Items

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3838.S8 E4 1927 ✔ Available Place Hold