Music, Neurology, and Psychology in the Nineteenth Century

Authors

Amy B. Graziano, Chapman UniversityFollow
Julene K. Johnson, University of California - San Francisco

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This chapter examines connections between research in music, neurology, and psychology during the late-nineteenth century. Researchers in all three disciplines investigated how music is processed by the brain. Psychologists and comparative musicologists, such as Carl Stumpf, thought in terms of multiple levels of sensory processing and mental representation. Early thinking about music processing can be linked to the start of Gestalt psychology. Neurologists such as August Knoblauch also discussed multiple levels of music processing, basing speculation on ideas about language processing. Knoblauch and others attempted to localize music function in the brain. Other neurologists, such as John Hughlings Jackson, discussed a dissociation between music as an emotional system and language as an intellectual system. Richard Wallaschek seems to have been the only one from the late-nineteenth century to synthesize ideas from musicology, psychology, and neurology. He used ideas from psychology to explain music processing and audience reactions and also used case studies from neurology to support arguments about the nature of music. Understanding the history of this research sheds light on the development of all three disciplines—musicology, neurology, and psychology.

ISBN

9780444634108

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

Elsevier

City

Amsterdam

Keywords

mental representation, Tonvorstellung, Stumpf (Carl), Gestalt psychology, aphasia, amusia, Knoblauch (August), origins of music, music and emotion, Jackson (John Hughlings), Wallaschek (Richard)

Disciplines

Music Theory | Neurosciences | Other Music | Other Psychology | Psychology

Comments

In Altenmüller, Finger, & Boller (Eds.), Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives. Prof. Graziano's chapter begins on page 33.

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Recommended Citation

Graziano, Amy B., and Julene K. Johnson. "Music, Neurology, and Psychology in the Nineteenth Century." In Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives (Progress in brain research 216), edited by E. Altenmüller, F. Boller & S. Finger, 33-49. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015.

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