Author : Harold E. Fiske
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Music Cognition and Aesthetic Attitudes by : Harold E. Fiske
Download or read book Music Cognition and Aesthetic Attitudes written by Harold E. Fiske and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study develops a theory about the interaction between music cognition and affective response. The theory demonstrates how musical thinking, knowledge, and decision-making result in qualitative musical behaviour. It reports new findings about the cognitive representation of musical structures, imagery as an auditory-phenomenological descriptor of music, aesthetic response as an outcome of specific cognitive decisions, and the value of music in cross-cultural human development. Each of the seven essays identifies a problem in music psychology that is relevant to an explanation of the musical process, reviews the literature relevant to that problem, and, through systematic philosophical analysis, offers a solution. This book should be of interest to music philosophers, and psychologists working in the areas of cognition, aesthetics, music theory, music education, and music therapy.