Carol L. Krumhansl is a music psychologist, Professor of Psychology at

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. Her work addresses the perception of musical

tonality Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is call ...

(relationships between tones, chords and keys such as C major or C# minor). Her approach is based on empirical

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...

and her research established the meaning of the now common term "tonal hierarchies". Her interdisciplinary research touches

music psychology Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, r ...

music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

and

cognitive neuroscience of music The neuroscience of music is the scientific study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the cognitive processes underlying music. These behaviours include music listening, Performance, performing, Musical composition, composing, reading, writing, an ...

. Krumhansl’s precise mathematical modeling of tonal and rhythmic musical dimensions has been extended in current models of music perception, memory and performance, most notably by her former students Jamshed Bharucha, Michael Hove, Caroline Palmer, Glenn Schellenberg, and Mark Schmuckler. Her book, Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch (Krumhansl, 1990) has been reviewed by

David Huron David Huron (born June 1, 1954) is a Canadian Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University, in both the School of Music and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. His teaching and publications focus on the psycholo ...

and is a standard resource for teachers and students of music psychology and one of the discipline's most cited sources. Her father was James A. Krumhansl, a Cornell physicist.Pearce, Jeremy
James Krumhansl, 84, opponent of supercollider
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Bibliography

*Carol L. Krumhansl, ''Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. 307pp. .

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