David Huron
David Huron (June 1, 1954 – June 5, 2025) was 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.[1] In 2017, Huron was awarded the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Achievement Award.,[2] followed in 2019 by the Society for Music Theory's Lifetime Membership Award.[3] In 2021 he was named Nico Frijda Honorary Chair in Cognitive Science, awarded by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam.[4]
Huron's publications have focused on the evolutionary function of music, computational musicology, and Music and emotion. He is the creator of The Humdrum Toolkit for Computational Musicology.
Early life and education
David Huron was born in Peace River, Alberta, 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.[5]
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 Outstanding Publication Award, and his 2006 book Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation was awarded the society's Wallace Berry Award.[6]
Books
- Huron, D. (2024). The Science of Sadness: A New Understanding of Emotion. MIT Press.[7]
- Huron, D. (2016). Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art. MIT Press.[8]
- Huron, D. (2006). Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.[9]
- 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.
Videos
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Huron". The Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab. Ohio State University. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About the Society for Music Perception and Cognition". www.musicperception.org. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SMT Lifetime Members". societymusictheory.org/archives/lifetime. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Summer School". abc.uva.nl/about-abc/education/summer-school/summer-school.html?cb#Previous-Frijda-Chairs. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shanahan, Daniel (2020). "Empirical Musicology: An Interview with David Huron Part 1". Empirical Musicology Review. 15 (1): 3–17. doi:10.18061/emr.v15i1-2.7718.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Publication Award Recipients | SMT". societymusictheory.org. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
- ^ Reviews of The Science of Sadness:
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cornelius, Randolph (2025). "Review of the Week". Choice.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Munoz-Serna, Carlos (2025). "Review of Huron, David, The Science of Sadness: A New Understanding of Emotion". H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bainbridge, Constance M. (2025). "The Science of Sadness: A New Understanding of Emotion. By David Huron". Quarterly Review of Biology. 100 (4): 346–347. doi:10.1086/738804.
- ^ Reviews of Voice Leading:
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moss, Fabian C. (2017). "Book Review". Music Theory and Analysis. 4 (1): 119–145. doi:10.11116/MTA.4.1.7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bernardes, Gilberto (2017). "Review: David Huron, Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art". Portuguese Journal of Musicology. 4 (1): 219–226.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fowler-Finn, Kasey (2018). "Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art by David Huron". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 39 (1): 42–43. doi:10.1086/696758.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth (2019). "Book review". Journal of Music Theory. 63 (1): 139–144. doi:10.1215/00222909-7320639. S2CID 171843519.
- ^ Reviews of Sweet Anticipation:
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thompson, William Forde (2007). "David Huron, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation". Empirical Musicology Review. 2 (2): 67–70. doi:10.18061/1811/24826. hdl:1811/24826.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Benjamin, William (2007). "Reviewed Work: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation by David Huron". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 65 (3): 333–335. doi:10.1111/j.1540-594X.2007.00265_2.x. JSTOR 4622248.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stevens, Catherine; Marcs, Tim B. (2007). "Review of Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation, by D. Huron". Music Perception. 24 (5): 511–514. doi:10.1525/mp.2007.24.5.511.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ockelford, Adam (2008). "Review article: D. Huron, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation". Psychology of Music. 36 (3): 367–382. doi:10.1177/0305735608094506. S2CID 145590269.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Biancorooso, Giorgio (2008). "Whose Phenomenology of Music? David Huron's Theory of Expectation". Music & Letters. 89 (3): 396–404. doi:10.1093/ml/gcn015.
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