The effects of music
Subtitle: a series of essays
By: edited by Max Schoen.
Contributors: Schoen, Max, 1888-
Series: International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method; International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1927
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Music -- Psychology.; Music.
Notes: Essays "in the main 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."  The prize-winning study, on The effects of repetition, was submitted by Professor Margaret F. Washburn and her student assistants at Vassar College. The laboratory reports of the Edison-Carnegie music research, conducted by W. V. Bingham with the assistance of Dr. Max Schoen and Dr. Esther L. Gatewood, are in part also included. cf.Introd.

Includes indexes.

CONTENTS CONTINUED.--Hyde, I. M. Effects of music upon electro-cardiograms and blood pressure.--Washburn, M. F., Child, M. S. and Abel, T. M. The effects of immediate repetition on the pleasantness or unpleasantness of music.--Gilliland, A. R. and Moore, H. T.  The immediate and long-time effects of classical and popular phonograph selections.--Downey, J. E. and Knapp, G. E. The effect on a musical programme of familiarity and of sequence of selections.--Ortman, O. Visual, kinaesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory effects of music.--Gatewood, E. L. A study in the use of similes for describing music and its effects.
Table of contents: value: Myers, C. S. Individual differences in listening to music.; value: Ortman. O. Types of listeners. Genetic considerations.; value: Gatewood, E. L. An experimental study of the nature of musical enjoyment.; value: Washburn, M. F. and Dickinson, G. L. The sources and nature of the affective reaction to instrumental music.; value: Schoen, M. and Gatewood, E. L. The mood effects of music.; value: Schoen, M. and Gatewood, E. L. Problems related to the mood effects of music.