Teaching Resources
Syllabus Bank
The syllabi below have been provided by SMPC members who teach courses on music cognition and who responded to our request for course syllabi in 2023. Syllabi are organized based on the department in which they are taught. To determine when a course will be taught next, please contact the instructor directly (SMPC does not have this information).
As an additional resource, here are slides from the Music Cognition Teaching Workshop presented at the 2024 SMPC meeting: Click here to download slides
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Music, Dr. Jessica Grahn, Western University
Psychology of Music, Dr. Laura Getz, University of San Diego
Psychology of Music, Dr. James Mantell, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Music Perception and Cognition, Dr. L. Robert Slevc, University of Maryland
Psychology of Music, Dr. Joel Snyder, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Psychology of Music, Dr. Kathleen Corrigall, MacEwan University
Books in Music Cognition
See below for a list of music cognition-related books. (To add a book to the list, please email the SMPC webmaster: webmaster [at] musicperception.org)
General Music Cognition-Related Textbooks
Music and the Brain for Musicians: Understanding the Research and Getting Involved: Laura Stambaugh
Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology; Donald Hodges, Gary McPherson
Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance; Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher, Rom Harre
The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction; Elizabeth Margulis
Edited Volumes
Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, and Applications; ed, Patrik Juslin
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain; eds: Michael Thaut, Donald Hodges
The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology; eds: Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, Michael Thaut
Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance; eds: Clemens Wollner, Justin London
The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future; eds: Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui, Deirdre Loughridge
Specific Topics within Music Cognition
Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world’s music; Patrick Savage
How Music Sculpts Our Brain: Isabelle Peretz
Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition; Jonathan De Souza
Music, Language, and the Brain; Aniruddh Patel
On Repeat: How Music Plays in the Mind; Elizabeth Margulis
Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures: Stephen McAdams
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality: Richard Parncutt
The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music; Fred Lerdahl
Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation; David Huron
Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams; Elizabeth Margulis