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Sven Bjerstedt

Sven Bjerstedt

Associate professor

Sven Bjerstedt

Strong Experiences with Music: Music is Much More than Just Music: A Review Essay

Author

  • Sven Bjerstedt

Summary, in English

The objects of Alf Gabrielsson's study Strong experiences with music are experiences and insights that exceed by far what is normally included in music experiences. To a great extent, the many (over 500) experiences related in this book are so intense that a reader often cannot avoid comparing them to her or his own experiences with music. The multi-variety of character in music experiences is viewed in relation to their dependence on a large number of both musical, personal, and situational variables. With its rare combination of the richness of accounts of extraordinary experiences, the sympathetic understanding and interpretation that characterizes the reflective commentary, and its thoughtful and cautious scientific analysis, this book provides a most powerful illustration of the profundity of the question what music may do to us.

Department/s

  • Malmö Theatre Academy

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Publication/Series

International Journal of Education and the Arts

Volume

14

Document type

Review

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

Topic

  • Performing Arts

Keywords

  • Music
  • Music psychology
  • Music education

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1529-8094