Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Part 1: Understanding Music What Is Music? 3 1. Defining Music 3 2. Sound Waves: The Music inside Sound 7 3. Pitch, Timbre, and Rhythm 14 4. Scales, Intervals, and Tuning Systems 21 Music across Cultures 31 5. Defining Culture 31 6. Cross-Cultural Research in Music Psychology 36 7. Nature versus Nurture 41 8. Musical Universals 47 Musical Expertise 53 9. What Is Musical Expertise? 53 10. Musical Genius 58 11. Genetics and Musical Expertise 64 12. Competitions: Judging Expertise 69 Musical Prodigies and Savants 75 13. Becoming a Musical Prodigy: Hard Work or Born That Way? 75 14. Prodigies in Performance 80 15. Prodigies in Musical Creativity 84 16. Musical Savants 89 Music and the Brain 95 17. Contemporary Approaches to the Neuroscience of Music 95 18. Music and the Brain across the Life Span 100 19. Tone Deafness 105 20. Music and Language 111
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