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  2. Psychology of music preference - Wikipedia

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    Music is heard by people daily in many parts of the world, and affects people in various ways from emotional regulation to cognitive development, along with providing a means for self-expression. Music training has been shown to help improve intellectual development and ability, though minimal connection has been found as to how it affects ...

  3. Music and emotion - Wikipedia

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    Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...

  4. Psychology of music - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of music, or music psychology, is a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology.It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.

  5. Neuroscience of music - Wikipedia

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    Music agnosia, an auditory agnosia, is a syndrome of selective impairment in music recognition. [89] Three cases of music agnosia are examined by Dalla Bella and Peretz (1999); C.N., G.L., and I.R.. All three of these patients suffered bilateral damage to the auditory cortex which resulted in musical difficulties while speech understanding ...

  6. Music as a coping strategy - Wikipedia

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    Since music-based coping is designed to modify an individual's emotional reactions to a certain event, it is best classified as an emotion-based coping strategy. Rather than attempting to directly influence or eliminate a particular stressor, music-based coping relies on influencing an individual's emotional and mental reaction to the stressor.

  7. List of silent musical compositions - Wikipedia

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    Some composers have discussed the significance of silence or a silent composition without ever composing such a work. In his 1907 manifesto, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, Ferruccio Busoni described its significance: [1] That which, within our present-day music, most nearly approaches the essential of the art, is the Rest and the Hold (Pause).

  8. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]

  9. Doctrine of the affections - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine of the affections, also known as the doctrine of affects, doctrine of the passions, theory of the affects, or by the German term Affektenlehre (after the German Affekt; plural Affekte) was a theory in the aesthetics of painting, music, and theatre, widely used in the Baroque era (1600–1750).