Bibliography annotation

1. Bicknell, Jeanette, 2009, Why music moves us, Palgrave Macmillan
This book is a research in psychology, philosophy and anthropology about the influence of music. The author shows that different music can arise different feelings: sadness and tears in the years, smile and satisfaction, great euphoria. The music has the power to move people, to influence them. With the help of music people can express feelings and thoughts, show it to other people, despite the age or nationality. It is because music is a language that all people speak and understand. The author explains what listener can feel emotionally, physically and cognitively when listening to the music. And the conclusion of the author is that music is a social experience, that has a great power of influence on people.
2. Perret, Danielle, 2005, Roots of Musicality: Music Therapy and Personal Development, Kingsley Publishers
D. Perret writes and the close connection between music and human spirit. He tells readers about the music therapy, which is based on the power of music, that can energise and harmonise, and also can balance human spirit. Music can be considered as an expression of a person, so the author studies a certain connection between neuroscience and psychology and musical expression. He showed a therapeutic effect of music during the work with children with autism disorders. Also the author considers the close connection between life and music, as music is a mean of the expression and development of person’s spirit.
3. Wigram, Tony; Pedersen, Inge Nygaard; Bonde , Lars; 2002, A Comprehensive Guide to Music Therapy: Theory, Clinical Practice, Research and Training, Kingsley Publishers
This book is an overview of the field of music therapy, that can be useful for both professional doctors and general public. This book has a wide range of methods of research about the clinical outcomes of certain influence of music. It shows all theory, facts and ideas necessary to access and understand the field of music therapy. It also provides a detailed insight in the world of music therapy from an international perspective, to make the topic more multifaceted.
4. Crafts, Susan D, Cavicchi, D, Keil, C, 1993, My music: Explorations of music in daily life, Wesleyan
The book “My music: Explorations of music in daily life” explores the place and roles that music can play in lives of people. This book is a part of a project “Music in Daily Life Project”, due to which a 150 people were asked to speak about the music in their life, about all the feelings, thoughts and emotions that it brings. The authors have collected a large number of interviews to show how people enjoy, experience, and use music. The book does not provide simple theoretical models, but the real examples and people’s thoughts on the diverse role about the place of music in daily life.
5. DeNora, Tia, 2000, Music in everyday life, Cambridge University Press,
The book is a sociological study, based on conceptions and research of the music concept. It offers an original and new point on the social theory about the music as an influence on characters, social lives of people and their actions. Tia DeNora provides a cultural analysis of consumption of music, and also provides a series of ethnographic studies about the music as a constitutive feature of humans. The book provides theoretical concepts of psychological, sociological and sociolinguistic aspects of music’s active role of social life of people.
6. DeNora, Tia, 2003, After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology, Cambridge University Press
The book focuses on the theoretical studies that were raised by Theodor W. Adorno about the role of music in modern society, that is concept of musicology and sociology. Adorno argued about the music as a mean of influence on consciousness and a measurement of social influence and control. Tia DeNora continues these studies in musicology and sociology, showing their close connection. So the book is a study in music sociology, showing music as part of social life and a device of social influence of people.

7. Juslin, Patrik N, Sloboda, John A, 2001, Music and emotion: Theory and research, Oxford University Press, USA
This book is a study of a link between emotions and music, that is considered from various perspectives and points of view. The position of emotional perception of music can be viewed a considerable one, and emotional aspects of music plays great role in musical and psychological studies. “Music and emotion: Theory and research” provides some new points in these studies, new interpretations and integrative views. It has a lot of aspects of the study: sociological and psychological, points in musicology, and also some biological and anthropological points of studies. The authors focuses on the emotional perception and consumption of music, show that place does emotions play in musicology, and how people are influenced by different emotions while listening to music.
8. Thompson, William Forde, 2008, Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music, Oxford University Press, USA
“Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music” is a pedagogical work in musical studies. It provides a wide research materials of the last 30 years about the music cognition, and an analytical materials on it. It explores the topics of psychology and neuroscience in intersection with music. It covers the most interesting questions of human perception of music, music and emotions. Also it has a scientific study about the effect of music on human brain with the help of neuroimaging techniques. This book has an important information on psychology of music, like psychological processes of composing and performing music, that are considerable from the psychological point of view.

9. Adorno, Theodor, 2002, Essays on music, University of Carolina Press
Th. Adorno provides essays on music, the principal aspects of music and musical life. The author’s analysis and commentary of scholarship about the music, showing author’s thinking on this topic. The author covers cultural and aesthetical questions of music, and also some literature aspects of music – that is an important study in musical sociology.
10. Kivy, Peter, 2002, Introduction to a philosophy of music, Oxford University Press, USA
“Introduction to a philosophy of music” is on a philosophy of music. It covers musical aesthetical views of all times, beginning from Plato thoughts and concepts, and up to modern view points on it. The book as well provides Peter Kivy’s own influential views on the philosophy of music, his analytical analysis of the topic. It provides sophisticated and argumentative philosophical points of music, that makes this book one of the most well-argumentative one. The author clearly shows his own position on the most interesting and important issues, offers his personal introduction to the philosophy of music, showing really interesting and fascinating ideas.