Huron David:
Sweet Anticipation
Music And The Psychology Of Expectation
Mit Press Ltd (United States), 2008
Paperback, 480 pages
Size: 228x181 mm
ISBN: 9780262582780
ISBN-10: 0262582783
List price: £12.95
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Sweet Anticipation
Suitable for readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as music, this book uses a theory of expectations to explain how music evokes various emotions. It identifies some of the aesthetic possibilities afforded by expectation, and shows how common musical devices exploit the psychological opportunities.

