Harold Fiske
Harold Fiske is an internationally recognized music researcher, lecturer, and author. His work is primarily concerned with music perception and cognition as it relates to musical thinking and learning. Fiske holds BMus and MMus degrees from Boston University and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. He joined the Faculty of Music following ten years of teaching high school instrumental music. Psychology and philosophy of music and quantitative research methodology are his principal teaching areas at Western. Harold Fiske is a former Chair of both the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education and the Research Alliance of Institutes for Music Education. He serves as well on the editorial boards of Psychomusicology, Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, and the Turkish Journal of Music Education. In addition to more than 75 published papers Fiske is the author of five books: Music and Mind (1990), Music Cognition and Aesthetic Attitudes (1993), Selected Theories of Music Perception (1996), Connectionist Models of Musical Thinking (2004), and Understanding Musical Understanding: The Psychology, Philosophy, and Sociology of the Musical Experience (2008).
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