Music in an Emergent History of Psychology

From a historical perspective, psychology can be studied from an abundance of angles. The historiographical perspective follows an emergent understanding of history. Music is consciously chosen as it probably is one of the most ignored aspects of psychology in historical research. The findings reveal that music as the direct factor played an overarching role in nineteenth century experimental psychology, but also that changes in the understanding of music in the early sixteenth century is comparable with changes the understanding of the soul underwent along with the introduction of the neologism psychology. In the understanding of both music and the soul the sensational aspects replaced the mathematical.