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Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music)

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Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music)

This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization.

The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music scholarship has often been occupied, including the emergence of musical syntax and its relationship to musical semiosis, the problem of musical ontology, the relationship between words and music in songs, and conceptions of musical form and musical hierarchy.

The book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists, as well as those with a professional or avocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.

Country	USA
Author	Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780195187977
IsAdultProduct	0
ISBN	0195187970
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press
MPN	38 line illustrations and 58 music examp
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PartNumber	38 line illustrations and 58 music examp
PublicationDate	2005-10-27
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Studio	Oxford University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00