{"product_id":"hearing-with-the-mind-carmel-raz-9780197786178","title":"Hearing with the Mind: Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment","description":"\u003cem\u003eHearing with the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e synthesizes two exciting approaches to music--cognitive psychology and social history--by focusing on the remarkable work of musical theorist John Holden (1729--72) during the Scottish Enlightenment. One of the first musical thinkers to propose a detailed account of how the human mind perceives music, Holden had an unconventional background as a merchant potter and appears to have been largely self-taught in music theory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his \u003cem\u003eEssay toward a Rational Theory of Music\u003c\/em\u003e (1770), Holden explores the cognitive aspects of music perception, focusing on chord relationships, key identification, and mental processes. He reinforces his cognitive claims using tenets of contemporaneous Scottish psychology pertaining to attention and memory. His ideas continued to resonate, as can be seen in the music-theoretical work of the Scottish minister Walter Young (1745--1814) and his sister, Anne Young (1756--c.1813), a piano teacher and the inventor of a complex and intriguing musical board game. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing widely from the histories of music theory, science, sociology, and philosophy, as well as from feminist criticism and ludo-musicology, Carmel Raz richly situates the lives and productions of John Holden and Walter and Anne Young within the contexts of the Scottish Enlightenment. \u003cem\u003eHearing with the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e thereby shows how the contributions of relatively marginalized figures in the history of music theory reflect Britain's social transformations and global entanglements in the rising age of empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carmel Raz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197786170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197786178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Carmel Raz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867272270079,"sku":"9780197786178","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24d21920-3c67-4bf9-8364-be59b2ce115f.jpg?v=1747454338","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hearing-with-the-mind-carmel-raz-9780197786178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}