Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology

Susan Hallam is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London and currently Dean of the Faculty of Policy and Society. She pursued careers as both a professional musician and a music educator before completing her psychology studies and becoming an academic in 1991 in the department of Educational Psychology at the Institute. Her research interests include disaffection from school, ability grouping and homework and issues relating to learning in music, practising, performing, musical ability, musical understanding and the effects of music on behaviour and studying. She is past editor of Psychology of Music, Psychology of Education Review and Learning Matters. She has twice been Chair of the Education Section of the British Psychological Society, and is currently treasurer of the British Educational Research Association, an auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency and an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
Ian Cross teaches at the University of Cambridge where he is Reader in Music & Science, Director of the Centre for Music & Science and a Fellow of Wolfson College. He has published widely in the field of music cognition. His principal research focus at present is on music as a biocultural phenomenon, involving collaboration with psychologists, anthropologists, archaeologists and computational neuroscientists. His research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms underlying the capacity for achievement and maintenance of inter-individual synchrony of behaviour, those underlying the experience of meaning in engagement with music, and those involved in the cognition and perception of multi-levelled structure in both music and language.
Michael H Thaut received his masters and PhD in music from Michigan State University. He is also a graduate of the Mozarteum Music Conservatory in Salzburg/Austria. At Colorado State University he is a Professor of Music and a Professor of Neuroscience and serves as Executive Director of the School of the Arts and Chairman of the Dept of Music, Theater, and Dance. He has also directed the Center for Biomedical Research in Music for 12 years. Dr Thaut's internationally recognized research focuses on brain function in music, especially time information processing in the brain related to rhythmicity and biomedical applications of music to neurologic rehabilitation of cognitive and motor function. He has received both the National Research Award and the National Service Award from the American Music Therapy Association. He is an elected member of the World Academy of Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology and in 2007 he was elected President of the International Society for Clinical Neuromusicology.

- Part I - The Origins and Functions of Music edited by Ian Cross - 1: Ian Cross: The nature of music and its evolution - 2: Catherine Stevens and Tim Byron: Universals in music processing - 3: Ian Cross and Elizabeth Tolbert: Music and meaning - 4: Martin Clayton: The social and personal functions of music in cross-cultural perspective - Part II - Music Perception edited by Ian Cross - 5: Thomas Stainsby and Ian Cross: The perception of pitch - 6: Emmanuel Bigand and Benedicte Poulin-Charronat: Tonal cognition - 7: Stephen McAdams and Bruno L Giordano: The perception of musical timbre - 8: Mari Riess Jones: Musical time - 9: Mark A Schmuckler: Components of melodic processing - 10: Bob Snyder: Memory for music - Part III - Responses to Music edited by Donald Hodges - 11: Donald A Hodges: Bodily responses to music - 12: Patrik N Juslin: Emotional responses to music - 13: Alf Gabrielsson: The relationship between musical structure and perceived expression - 14: David Huron: Aesthetics - 15: Alexandra Lamont and Alinka Greasley: Musical preferences - Part IV - Music and the Brain edited by Aniruddh Patel - 16: Laurel J Trainor and Robert J Zatorre: The neurobiological basis of musical expectations - 17: Lauren Stewart, Katharina von Kriegstein, Simone Dalla Bella, Jason D Warren and Timothy D Griffiths: Disorders of musical cognition - 18: Gottfried Schlaug: Music, musicians and brain plasticity - 19: Aniruddh D Patel: Music and the brain: three links to language - Part V - Musical Development edited by David Hargreaves - 20: Richard Parncutt: Prenatal development and the phylogeny and ontogeny of musical behaviour - 21: Sandra E Trehub: Music lessons from infants - 22: Alexandra Lamont: Music in the school years - 23: Frances H Rauscher: The impact of music instruction on other skills - Part VI - Learning Musical Skills edited by Susan Hallam - 24: Gary McPherson and Susan Hallam: Musical potential - 25: Harald Jorgensen and Susan Hallam: Practising - 26: Helena Gaunt and Susan Hallam: Individuality in the learning of musical skills - 27: Susan Hallam: Motivation to learn - 28: Andrea Creech: The role of the family in support learning - 29: Graham Welch and Adam Ockelford: The role of the institution and teachers in supporting learning - Part VII - Musical Performance edited by Richard Parncutt - 30: W Luke Windsor: Measurement and models of performance - 31: Eckart Altenmueller and Sabine Schneider: Planning and performance - 32: Andreas C Lehmann and Reinhard Kopiez: Sight-reading - 33: Roger Chaffin, Topher Logan and Kristen T Begosh: Performing from memory - 34: Jane W Davidson: Movement and collaboration in musical performance - 35: Patrik N Juslin: Emotion in music performance - 36: Dianna T Kenny and Bronwen Ackermann: Optimising physical and psychological health in performing musicians - Part VIII - Composition and Improvisation edited by Peter Webster - 37: Jonathan Impett: Making a mark: the psychology of composition - 38: Richard Ashley: Musical improvisation - 39: Peter R Webster: Children as creative thinkers in music: focus on composition - Part IX - The Role of Music in our Everyday Lives edited by John Sloboda - 40: John Sloboda, Alexandra Lamont and Alinka Greasley: Choosing to hear music: motivation, process and effect - 41: Annabel J Cohen: Music in performance arts: film, theatre and dance - 42: John Whaley, John Sloboda and Alf Gabrielsson: Peak experiences in music - 43: Raymond MacDonald, David J Hargreaves and Dorothy Miell: Musical identities - 44: Susan Hallam and Raymond MacDonald: The effects of music and community and educational settings - 45: Adrian C North and David J Hargreaves: Music and consumer behaviour - Part X - Music Therapy edited by Michael Thaut - 46: Shannon de l'Etoile and Alicia Clair: Music therapy: processes of music therapy - 47: Corene Hurt-Thaut: Clinical practice in music therapy - 48: Barbara Wheeler: Research and evaluation in music therapy - 49: Anne Kathrin Leins, Ralph Spintge and Michael Thaut: Music therapy in medical and neurological rehabilitation settings - Part XI - Conceptual Frameworks, Research Methods and Future edited by Susan Hallam, Ian Cross and Michael Thaut - 50: Adam Ockelford: Beyond music psychology - 51: Michael Thaut: History and research - 52: Susan Hallam, Ian Cross and Michael Thaut: Where now?