David Huron (born June 1, 1954) is a Canadian-American Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor at theOhio State University, in both the School of Music and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. His teaching and publications focus on thepsychology of music andmusic cognition.[1] In 2017, Huron was awarded the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Achievement Award.[2]
Huron's publications have focused on the evolutionary function of music,computational musicology, andMusic and emotion. He is the creator ofThe Humdrum Toolkit for Computational Musicology.
David Huron was born in thePeace River, Alberta in Canada. He attended theCanterbury High School (Ottawa) and later studied atThe Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He then studied the History of Ideas at theUniversity of Waterloo. After completing a master's degree atYork University in Toronto, he completed his PhD at theUniversity of Nottingham in 1989.[3]
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'sOutstanding Publication Award, and his 2006 bookSweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation was awarded the society's Wallace Berry Award.[4]
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