Origins of this course

Culture and how we understand ourselves
    Alan Roland - Musical metaphor of understanding aspects of self (major and minor)

Self and Identity is reflected in musical experience - how we participate in social worlds

Music in my own life - always important - learning to play as child then later as adult

History of Psychology and the study of our discipline

    Gestalt psychology - patterns and forms of perception

    Volkerpsychologie - collective self (volkgesit)

Nature (scope) of the course

Built on the dichotomy of objective and subjective

the course will look at both the phenomena of music and how it is grounded in the physical
    i.e.,  brain, behaviour & social rituals (mediate experiences)

 as well as our experience and interpretation of music as part of our being human
    i.e., Emotion, meaning and motivation (immediate experiences)