Open AccessReview of David Huron,Sweet Anticipation(MIT Press Books, 2006): Implications for Composers
Author(s) -
Eleanor Aversa
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
music theory online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1067-3040
DOI - 10.30535/mto.15.3.16
Subject(s) - anticipation (artificial intelligence) , pleasure , unconscious mind , psychology , art , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , computer science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence
Sweet Anticipation is partially devoted to explaining why listeners have a positive response to music that they can successfully predict. The book also presents evidence that the pleasure felt when expectations are met is especially great when these expectations are unconscious. I give examples from popular and classical music of consciously and unconsciously recognizable material and explore what Huron’s findings might mean to composers.