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* Music and Emotion: Theory and Research. Edited by Patrik N. Juslin and John A. Sloboda. Oxford University Press (198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016-4314; 800-445-- 9714; www.oup-usa.org). 2001. 488 pp. Black and white photos, author index, subject index. Paper, $34.95. Part of Oxford University Press's Series in Affective Science, this research collection attempts to synthesize the study of music's affective qualities across many disciplines by integrating the contributions of leaders in the fields of philosophy, musicology, literature, psychology, acoustics, anthropology, and the neurosciences into three focus areas: the composer, the performer, and the listener. This book looks at music both as a vocabulary of sound that symbolically describes nonverbal affective messages and as a medium that requires the affective aspects of human nature in order to be composed, performed, or appreciated.