"For professional musicians, musicologists, and serious students, knowledge of the psychology of music is extremely valuable but sometimes hard to come by. In this practical and authoritative study which pulls together information from musicology, physics, physiology, psychology, and aesthetics the distinguished Hungarian psychologist Geza Revesz offers a comprehensive view of the subject, including an overview of his own extensive, often revolutionary research in both music psychology and acoustics."

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