The Role of Expectation in Music a Study in the Psychology of Music (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Role of Expectation in Music a Study in the Psychology of Music (Classic Reprint) written by Arthur Dart Bissell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Role of Expectation in Music a Study in the Psychology of Music Attention seems to be the name psychology has agreed upon to indicate the degree of mental energy, whether voluntary or involuntary, actually engaged in presenting more or less vividly some sensation or object or image or thought before the field of consciousness. The difficulty involved in attending to an element of feeling lies in the fact that there is a certain feeling-tone of interest always associated with the attention, which is greater when this is voluntary, and that feelling of interest tends to supplant the feeling to which attention is directed. Severe pain might assert itself over against this feeling of interest but it is itself too serious a disturbance of the process of attention. There is also a motor accompaniment to attention which, like the feeling of interest, is more marked with the voluntary atten tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.