BCSC 260: Music & the Mind
Cross-listed: BCSC 260-01 (P), MUSC 162-01, TH 260-1, TH 460-1
Prerequisites: One semester of collegiate music theory (MUSC 101, MUSC 110, MUSC 111 or TH 101), AP exam score of 4 or 5, or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring
Introduction to the discipline of music cognition. Topics include empirical methods, psycho-acoustic principles, influence of Gestalt psychology, music and language, metric and tonal hierarchies, music and the brain, aspects of musical development, and research on musical memory, expectation, and emotion.