| Chapters 1, 2, & 3 | The Ear and How It Works |
| The Auditory Brain | |
| Cognitive Psychology and Music |
Audition and how the ear works: Links to further pages on how the middle ear and the cochlea work, and also shows the neural pathways leading to the cortex.
The Ear: More online guides and illustrations.
Cochlear Mechanics: Gives explanations on how it is believed the cochlea works.
Virtual Tour of the Ear: Comphrensive guide to the physiology of the ear.
Tinnitus Explains tinnitus, what it is, demonstrates what it can sound like, etc.
| Chapters 4, 5, & 6 | Physics of Sound Waves |
| Pitch Perception | |
| Loudness |
Sound waves: Discussion of wavelength, period, amplitude, and frequency.
Demonstration: See the shape of various sound waves (sine, square, sawtooth, etc.) and hear what they sound like. Add waveforms together or click and drag the graph to change the shape of the wave and hear how the changed shape affects the sound.
Integration of two sound waves: Constructive and Destructive Interference of Sound Waves and a description of beats.
Beats: A demonstration. Choose the frequencies of two sound waves and hear what they sound like when played together.
Intensity (loudness): A discussion of the perception of loudness as influenced by intensity and frequency.
The Physics Classroom: Simple tutorial in easy to understand language of waves, sound properties and their perception, behaviour of sound waves (e.g., beats, Doppler effect), resonance and standing waves, and how musical instruments work. Includes some nice graphics and animations.
| Chapters 7 & 8 | Timbre |
| Hearing in Time and Space |
SHARC Tour of timbre (Gregory Sandell): includes the concepts of waveform, spectral centroid, sharpness, dissonance, and spectral irregularity.
Harmonics demonstration: See how a waveform changes as you change the harmonics and then hear what it sounds like. You can even play one of two tunes using the sounds you create.
Doppler demonstration: A demonstration of the Doppler effect.
| Chapters 10 & 17 | Stream Segregation |
| Memory and Music |
Intro to Auditory Scene Analysis: Includes visuals and an auditory demonstration.
Shepard's discrete scale: An ascending scale that remains in the same pitch range.
| Chapters 13 & 14 | Pitch Perception and Measurement |
| Consonance and Scales |
Animation of the frequency spectrum of an oboe playing ascending notes. (Notice the fundamental frequencies increase but that spectrum does not simply shift to the right).
Critical bands (ERBs): A discussion of excitation patterns and Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidths.
Just Intonation
Just Intonation Explained: Well, organized explanation of just intonation and how it is derived.
Harmonica explication: Explanations of just intonation vs equal temperament with examples on the harmonica.
The Just Intonation Network homepage.
The Just Intonation Network: Definition and idscussion of just intonation.
Chapter 1 of the Just Intonation Primer: Gives the historical background and development of the just intonation system.
The following links are a good place to start looking for information on the various suggested topics for your group presentation. As always, when finding information on the Web, be aware that the authors of these pages can make any assertions-the information on the pages has not necessarily been reviewed and verified by anyone.
Tony DeBlois site: Website dedicated to the musical savant, Tony DeBlois. Includes a biography and samples of his music.
Article on Leslie Lemke: Page about Leslie Lemke, musical savant and the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman to star in the movie Rain Man.
Haraki finds his Voice: Article about Haraki Oe, Japanese musical savant.
Centre for the Study of Autism: An information article about autistic savants.
Musical Infants: Short article about testing children for musical ability and some findings from research. Includes references to several articles.
Never too Late: Discussion on learning music beyond the age of 60.
Music in the Womb: Discussion of the issues involved in the processing of music in utero.
Absolute Pitch - An Approach for Identification of Genetic and Nongenetic Components: Academic journal article on Absolute Pitch.
The perfectpitch.org site: The UCSF Neurogenetics Lab 'Perfect Pitch' site. Very attractive site, has a couple of articles written about their work under the 'Press' link.
Absolute memory for Perfect Pitch: Research article on absolute pitch memory by Prof. D. Levitin (McGill).
Self Reference and Memory: Another paper by Daniel Levitin on absolute pitch.
'The Mozart Effect' Music Research: A collection of the original research literature (Raucher, Shaw) that started the controversy on the Mozart Effect. Plenty of links to more information on the Mozart Effect.
Education Week Article: Includes interviews with Raucher and Shaw, the original researchers into the Mozart Effect. They suggest caution with their conclusions and don't provide support for a lot of hype that has since been connected with the Mozart Effect.
www.mozarteffect.com: Advertizing page for various Mozart Effect programs and books. Some information and shows some of the hype that surrounds this area.
www.tuneyourbrain.com: An article suggesting that you can increase your IQ by listening to music (and not just Mozart).
'The Mozart Effect' Defined: From the Skeptic's Dictionary.
Critical perspectives: A skeptical look at the Mozart Effect.
Article-Essay on the Mozart Effect: Looks at the Mozart Effect from a larger perspective.
Indian music: Brief explanation of emotion in Indian as well as the structural make up (Raga, Tala and the infinite shrutis ormicrotones) of the music.
Cultural Music of the World: Site for a course on world music taught at Florida State University.
Music - Culture or biology?: Article on the 'nature vs. nuture' debate applied to music.
Film and Music: Essay on the history and theories of music in film.
Film Composer homepage: Some technical and aesthetic considerations in scoring films. Covers several things that must be taken into account when scoring a scene.
Music in Dance
Expressive Performance and Music: List of publications concerning research about dance.
'Healthy' music: CBC Radio report about a Kingston General Hospital study into the effects of music on patients during stressful procedures.
MUSICA articles: Covers some findings on music and emotions, and that music can induce emotion. Includes some references.
Emotion and meaning in music: Research page of Guy Madison. Outlines his research, and gives some of his publications in the area.
Music and the mind: Affects on mood.
Music and the 'Colouring' of Mood.
Music and driving: University of Hawaii: Music and Drivers course site. How music affects the mood of someone driving a car.
Description of the reasoning behind the use of elevator music.
MUSICA: Subject index of the Music and Science Information Computer Archive: Most of the above topics are represented in more than one article here. (ie. Mozart, mood & emotion, neuropsychology of music, motivation, etc.)
Systems of Music Perception: MIT grad student's dissertation-in-progress on an aspect of the neuropsychology of music and psychoacoustics.
Music and States of Consciousness: Article looking at correlations in EEGs.
Journal of Music Theory Online: A searchable index of every issue of the MTO.
Music Performance
Research on connections between music and intelligence. Also some more on the Mozart Effect.
A glossary of terms for physiological structures in audition.
Extensive glossary of music terms at Ohio State University.
