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  Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (Bradford Books)

  by David Brian Huron

  Winner, 2007 Wallace Berry Award presented by the Society for Music Theory. The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology... (more)