Richard Wallasche's Nineteenth-Century Contributions to the Psychology of Music

Graziano, Amy B.; Johnson, Julene K.

doi:10.1525/mp.2006.23.4.293

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“…Wallaschek reviewed observations by Oppenheim, as well as Jackson and Gowers, and expanded upon earlier thinking (Wallaschek, 1891a(Wallaschek, , 1891b(Wallaschek, , 1894Graziano & Johnson, 2006). He argued that music as an expression of emotion and language as an expression of intellectual thought were two distinct neurologic processes localized in different parts of the brain.…”

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Hermann Oppenheim's Observations about Music in Aphasia

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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Hermann Oppenheim was influential in many areas of neurology, but his ideas about music are relatively unknown. In 1888, he published a paper that outlined how the assessment of music skills in patients with aphasia could lead to a better understanding of aphasia and language. Oppenheim conducted the first comprehensive music assessment as part of a neurologic examination and presented the first case series of music in aphasia. His paper was widely cited and had significant influence over the next 30 years. Although largely unrecognized as such, Oppenheim was an important historical figure in the study of music and neurology.

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Hermann Oppenheim's Observations about Music in Aphasia

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“…Today, he is known primarily for his contributions to comparative musicology, but during his life he was known and referred to by psychologists and neurologists as well as musicologists (Graziano and Johnson, 2006). Wallaschek studied in Germany, and then in London from 1890 to 1895.…”

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Music, neurology, and psychology in the nineteenth century

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2015

Progress in Brain Research

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This chapter examines connections between research in music, neurology, and psychology during the late-nineteenth century. Researchers in all three disciplines investigated how music is processed by the brain. Psychologists and comparative musicologists, such as Carl Stumpf, thought in terms of multiple levels of sensory processing and mental representation. Early thinking about music processing can be linked to the start of Gestalt psychology. Neurologists such as August Knoblauch also discussed multiple levels of music processing, basing speculation on ideas about language processing. Knoblauch and others attempted to localize music function in the brain. Other neurologists, such as John Hughlings Jackson, discussed a dissociation between music as an emotional system and language as an intellectual system. Richard Wallaschek seems to have been the only one from the late-nineteenth century to synthesize ideas from musicology, psychology, and neurology. He used ideas from psychology to explain music processing and audience reactions and also used case studies from neurology to support arguments about the nature of music. Understanding the history of this research sheds light on the development of all three disciplines-musicology, neurology, and psychology.

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“…The work of Hermann von Helmholtz (a physicist, physician and physiologist) can be considered the start of empirical research in psychoacoustics and music perception, but there was also an avid interest in higher-order cognitive processing of music. Psychologists (such as Carl Stumpf) and systematic musicologists (for example, Richard Wallaschek) pursued philosophical, theoretical and sometimes empirical work in music cognition (Graziano & Johnson, 2006). At the same time in late nineteenthcentury Germany, neurologists pursued a similar but completely separate research path investigating acquired impairments in music skill in order to map brain localization of music function (Johnson & Graziano, 2003; Johnson, Graziano, & Hayward, in press).…”

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