"Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology," by Marc Leman, MIT Press, 2007, Hardcover. Book explores the intersection of music, psychology, and science. One of Leman’s key contributions to the topic, a must for every music research and appreciation library.

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""Embodied Music Cognition" re-examines the foundations of musical experience using an ecological approach to perception in which the human body--the need to act and interact with the environment via voice, hands, and motor systems--becomes a primary component of musical perception and understanding. This bypasses the traditional mind/body duality which has relegated much of musical analysis to a linguistic exercise; simultaneously, it moves beyond a mere physical description of musical phenomena. Leman applies the ideas to the problem of designing flexible and intuitive musical instruments and to the young field of music information retrieval."--William A. Sethares, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin

"Leman simultaneously articulates a comprehensive and compelling theory of why music moves us and offers a vision of what the music information technology of the future will come to look like as it embodies the principles by which people interact with music."--Petr Janata, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis