Origin and nature of cognitive and systematic musicology: An introduction -- Systematic, cognitive and historical approaches in musicology -- Empiricism, gestalt qualities, and determination of style: Some remarks concerning the relationship of Guido Adler to Richard Wallaschek, Alexius Meinong, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Robert Lach -- Gestalt concepts and music: Limitations and possibilities -- Logic, gestalt theory, and neural computation in research on auditory perceptual organization -- Knowledge in music theory by shapes of musical objects and sound-producing actions -- Statistical gestalts - Perceptible features in serial music -- "Verschmelzung", tonal fusion, and consonance: Carl Stumpf revisited -- Schema and gestalt: Testing the hypothesis of psychoneural isomorphism by computer simulation -- Self-organizing neural nets and the perceptual origin of the circle of fifths -- A model of the perceptual root(s) of a chord accounting for voicing and prevailing tonality -- 'Good', 'rair', and 'bad' chord progressions: A regression-analysis of some psychological chord progression data obtained in an experiment by J. Bharucha and C. Krumhansl -- Problems of shape and background in sounds with inharmonic spectra -- A method of analysing harmony, based on interval patterns or "Gestalten" -- Neural network models for the study of post-tonal music -- Tempo relations: Is there a psychological basis for proportional tempo theory? -- A framework for the subsymbolic description of meter -- Musical rhythm: A formal model for determining local boundaries, accents and metre in a melodic surface -- Effects of perceptual organization and musical form on melodic expectancies -- Continuations as completions: Studying melodic expectation in the creative microdomain Seek Well -- Optimizing self-organizing timbre maps: Two approaches -- Towards a more general understanding of the nasality phenomenon -- Karl Erich Schumann's principles of timbre as a helpful tool in stream segregation research -- Cross-synthesis using interverted principal harmonic sub-spaces -- Gestalt phenomena in musical texture -- Technology of interpretation and expressive pulses -- Intonational protention in the performance of melodic octaves on the violin -- Sonological analysis of clarinet expressivity -- Perceptual analysis of the musical expressive intention in a clarinet performance -- Singing, mind and brain - Unit pulse, rhythm, emotion and expression -- Emulating gestalt mechanisms by combining symbolic and subsymbolic information processing procedures -- Interactive computer music systems and concepts of Gestalt -- Gestalt-based composition and performance in multimodal environments -- List of sound examples on the CD.