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Music Perception and Cognition
Art: after Jan Kalkar, Vesalius - Opera, 1725. Fig. 597, 1725 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Dr. Peter Cariani
- Term
- Spring 2009
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 solution · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 13 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare HST.725 Music Perception and Cognition, Spring 2009, Dr. Peter Cariani — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
11 files
- Course Introduction Download
- Why we listen: The psychological functions of music Download
- What we hear: Basic dimensions of auditory experience Download
- Neural representation of musical pitch Download
- Neural mechanisms of musical pitch Download
- Timbre perception Download
- Interactions between tones: Consonance & dissonance Download
- Systems of pitch relations: Scales, tunings and notations Download
- Melody & Harmony: combinations and sequences of pitches unfolding in time Download
- Rhythm: patterns of events in time Download
- Topic Summaries for HST.725 2009 Download
Assignments
Course outline
Lecture Notes · Lecture Notes
Lecture 2: Overview: auditory perception and the time sense
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Lecture 3: Overview of the auditory system
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Lecture 4: Pitch
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Lecture 5: Pitch mechanisms and neurocomputational models
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Lecture 7: Timbre
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Lecture 8: Consonance, dissonance, and roughness
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Lecture 9: Scales, tuning and harmony
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Lecture 10: Melody
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Lecture 16: Rhythm, timing, and expectation
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