David Huron
David Huron (born June 1, 1954) is a Canadian-American Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University, in both the School of Music and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. His teaching and publications focus on the psychology of music and music cognition.{{cite web|url=https://www.musiccognition.osu.edu/people/david-huron/ |title=David Huron |website=The Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab |publisher=Ohio State University |access-date=2019-05-14}} In 2017, Huron was awarded the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Achievement Award.{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicperception.org/about-smpc.html|title=About the Society for Music Perception and Cognition|website=www.musicperception.org|access-date=2019-12-21}}
Huron's publications have focused on the evolutionary function of music, computational musicology, and Music and emotion. He is the creator of [https://www.humdrum.org/index.html The Humdrum Toolkit for Computational Musicology.]
Early life and education
David Huron was born in the Peace River, Alberta in Canada. He attended the Canterbury High School (Ottawa) and later studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He then studied the History of Ideas at the University of Waterloo. After completing a master's degree at York University in Toronto, he completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham in 1989.{{cite journal|last=Shanahan |first=Daniel |title=Empirical Musicology: An Interview with David Huron Part 1 |journal=Empirical Musicology Review |volume=15 |number=1 |year=2020 |pages=3-17 |doi=10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7718|url=https://emusicology.org/index.php/EMR/article/view/7718/5744|doi-access=free}}
Career
Huron began his teaching career at the University of Waterloo and moved to Ohio State in 1998 as a Professor of Music Theory and Cognitive Science. Huron's 2001 article "Tone and Voice: A Derivation of the Rules of Voice-Leading from Perceptual Principles" was awarded the Society for Music Theory's [https://societymusictheory.org/archives/awards/publications Outstanding Publication Award], and his 2006 book Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation was awarded the society's Wallace Berry Award.{{Cite web |title=Publication Award Recipients {{!}} SMT |url=https://societymusictheory.org/archives/awards/publications |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=societymusictheory.org}}
Books
- Huron, D. (2024). The Science of Sadness: A New Understanding of Emotion. MIT Press.Review of The Science of Sadness: {{cite journal|last=Cornelius |first=Randolph |title=Review of the Week |journal=Choice |year=2025 |url=https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-science-of-sadness-rotw-1-27-25/ |ref=none}}
- Huron, D. (2016). Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art. MIT Press.Reviews of Voice Leading:
- {{cite journal|last=Moss |first=Fabian C. |title=Book Review |journal=Music Theory and Analysis |volume=4 |number=1 |year=2017 |pages=119–145|doi=10.11116/MTA.4.1.7 |ref=none}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fowler-Finn |first=Kasey |title=Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art by David Huron |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=39 |number=1 |year=2018 |pages=42–43 |doi=10.1086/696758|ref=none}}
- {{cite journal|last=Margulis |first=Elizabeth Hellmuth |title=Book review |journal=Journal of Music Theory|doi=10.1215/00222909-7320639 |year=2019 |volume=63 |number=1 |pages=139–144|s2cid=171843519 |ref=none}}
- Huron, D. (2006). Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.Reviews of Sweet Anticipation:
- {{cite journal|last=Thompson |first=William Forde |title=David Huron, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation |journal=Empirical Musicology Review |volume=2 |number=2 |year=2007 |pages=67–70 |doi=10.18061/1811/24826 |url=https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/24826/EMR000024a..?sequence=1|ref=none|doi-access=free |hdl=1811/24826 |hdl-access=free }}
- {{cite journal|last=Benjamin |first=William |title=Reviewed Work: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation by David Huron |journal=The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism|volume=65 |number=3 |year=2007 |pages=333–335 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-594X.2007.00265_2.x |jstor=4622248|ref=none|doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal|last=Ockelford |first=Adam |title=Review article: D. Huron, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation|journal=Psychology of Music |volume=36 |number=3 |year=2008 |pages=367–382 |doi=10.1177/0305735608094506|s2cid=145590269 |ref=none}}
- {{cite journal|last=Biancorooso |first=Giorgio |title=Whose Phenomenology of Music? David Huron's Theory of Expectation |journal=Music & Letters|volume=89 |number=3 |year=2008 |pages=396–404 |doi=10.1093/ml/gcn015|ref=none}}
- Huron, D. (1999). Music Research Using Humdrum: A User's Guide. Stanford, California: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.
- Huron, D. (1995). The Humdrum Toolkit: Reference Manual. Menlo Park, California: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.
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