Foundations Of Musical Grammar

Author : Lawrence Michael Zbikowski
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ISBN 13 : 9780190653668
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Musical Grammar written by Lawrence Michael Zbikowski and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Foundations of Musical Grammar' makes a unique contribution to music theory by building on recent research in cognitive science and theoretical perspectives adopted from cognitive linguistics to present an account of the foundations of musical grammar. In presenting this account, it engages with music and the emotions, gesture, and social dance.

Author : Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190653647
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Musical Grammar written by Lawrence M. Zbikowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Lawrence M. Zbikowski puts forward Foundations of Musical Grammar, an ambitious and broadly encompassing account on the foundations of musical grammar based on our current understanding of human cognitive capacities. Musical grammar is conceived of as a species of construction grammar, in which grammatical elements are form-function pairs. Zbikowski proposes that the basic function of music is to provide sonic analogs for dynamic processes that are important in human cultural interactions. He focuses on three such processes: those concerned with the emotions, the spontaneous gestures that accompany speech, and the patterned movement of dance. Throughout the book, Zbikowski connects cognitive research with music theory for an interdisciplinary audience, presenting detailed musical analyses and summaries of the basic elements of musical grammar.

Author : Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199881588
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Music written by Lawrence M. Zbikowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rudolf E. Radocy
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398088055
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MUSICAL BEHAVIOR written by Rudolf E. Radocy and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of Psychological Foundations of Musical Behavior appears at a time of continuing worldwide anxiety and turmoil. We have learned a lot about human musical behavior, and we have some understanding of how music can meet diverse human needs. In this exceptional new edition, the authors have elected to continue a “one volume” coverage of a broad array of topics, guided by three criteria: The text is comprehensive in its coverage of diverse areas comprising music psychology; it is comprehensible to the reader; and it is contemporary in its inclusion of information gathered in recent years. Chapter organization recognizes the traditional and more contemporary domains, with special emphases on psychoacoustics, musical preference, learning, and the psychological foundations of rhythm, melody, and harmony. Following the introductory preview chapter, the text examines diverse views of why people have music and considers music’s functions for individuals, its social values, and its importance as a cultural phenomenon. “Functional music” and music as a therapeutic tool is discussed, including descriptions and relationships involving psychoacoustical phenomena, giving considerable attention to perception, judgment, measurement, and physical and psychophysical events. Rhythmic behaviors and what is involved in producing and responding to rhythms are explored. The organization of horizontal and vertical pitch, tonality, scales, and value judgments, as well as related pedagogical issues are also considered. The basic aspects of musical performance, improvisation, composition, existing musical preferences and tastes, approaches to studying the affective response to music with particular emphasis on developments in psychological aesthetics are examined. The text closely relates the development and prediction of musical ability, music learning as a form of human learning, and music abnormalities, concluding with speculation regarding future research directions. The authors offer their latest review of aspects of human musical behavior with profound recognition of music’s enduring values.

Author : Mariusz Kozak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190080221
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enacting Musical Time written by Mariusz Kozak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality, phenomenology, and the ecologies of the new sound worlds, Enacting Musical Time argues that musical time is itself the site of the interaction between musical sounds and a situated, embodied listener, created by the moving bodies of participants engaged in musical activities. Author Mariusz Kozak describes musical time as something that emerges when the listener enacts her implicit knowledge about "how music goes," from deliberate inactivity, to such simple actions as tapping her foot in time with the beat, to dancing in a way that engages her entire body. Kozak explores this idea in the context of modernist and postmodernist musical styles, where composers create unfamiliar and idiosyncratic temporal experiences, blur the line between spectatorship and participation, and challenge conventional notions of form. Basing his discussion on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and on the ecological psychology of J. J. Gibson, Kozak examines different aspects of musical structure through the lens of embodied cognition and what phenomenologists call "lived time." A bold new theory derived from an unprecedented fusion of research perspectives, Enacting Musical Time will engage scholars across a range of disciplines, from music theory, music cognition, cognitive science, continental philosophy, and social anthropology.

Author : John Wall Callcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Musical Grammar, in Four Parts written by John Wall Callcott and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fred Lerdahl
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026262107X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, reissue, with a new preface written by Fred Lerdahl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-06-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics. This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science.The point of departure is a search for the grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Western classical music, relates the aural surface of a piece to the musical structure unconsciously inferred by the experienced listener. From the viewpoint of traditional music theory, it offers many innovations in notation as well as in the substance of rhythmic and reductional theory.

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A New Musical Grammar written by and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wall Callcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Musical Grammar, Etc written by John Wall Callcott and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rolf Inge Godøy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135183627
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Gestures written by Rolf Inge Godøy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.