Music, Mind and Meaning

Speculating about cognitive aspects of listening to music, this essay discusses: how metric regularity and thematic repetition might involve representation frames and memory structures, how the result of listening might resemble space-models, how phrasing and expression might evoke innate resp...

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Main Author: Minsky, Marvin
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6345
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Summary:Speculating about cognitive aspects of listening to music, this essay discusses: how metric regularity and thematic repetition might involve representation frames and memory structures, how the result of listening might resemble space-models, how phrasing and expression might evoke innate responses and, finally, why we like music ?? rather, what is the nature of liking itself.