This text shows how 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 the conceptual model. Series: AMS Studies in Music. Num Pages: 376 pages, numerous figures and music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JMC; JMH; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 732. . 2002. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music)
Publisher: OUP USA
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195140230
ISBN 13: 9780195140231
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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Lawrence Zbikowski has taught music theory and analysis at the University of Chicago since 1993.

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