Download or read book Selected Theories of Music Perception written by Harold E. Fiske and published by Lewiston , N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an historical and philosophical analysis of eight major theories that concern music perception, cognition, and meaning. These theories, developed in the 20th century, are among those most often cited by the music psychology and philosophy research literature. Included are Carl Seashore's theory of musical inheritance, Information theory, Mary Louise Serafine's theory of music as thought, music cognition versus speech cognition, neural network and Connectionist theory, and the musical meaning and communication theories of Susanne Langer, Leonard Meyer, and Peter Kivy.