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Who listens? : experience, cognition, and musical meaning / Janet Bourne.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bourne, Janet, author.
Series:
Oxford studies in music theory
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Music--Psychological aspects.
Music.
Listening--Psychological aspects.
Listening.
Cognitive psychology.
Cognition.
cognition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations.
Other Title:
Experience, cognition, and musical meaning
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Summary:
"Chapter 1 describes how the cognitive process of analogy can be used as a framework for analyzing how individual listeners relate what they are hearing to what they may have heard or learned in musical and other experiences in the past. The framework emphasizes the cognitive steps a person takes when making an analogy of any kind: (1) retrieval-remembering patterns and associations based on experience; (2) mapping-aligning situations; and (3) inference transfer- transferring inferences/associations, recognizing manipulations. I use this process to analyze hearings of Western art music, illustrating not only how listeners might analogize music to other domains (such as the body or language) as a framing analogy for their listening experience, but also how they might analogize details of the music they are currently hearing to music they have heard in the past, creating what I call music-to-music analogies"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction : Who’s listening?
Analogy and listening
Listener experience, modes of listening, and conceptual knowledge
Interlude : Creating composite listeners and cast of characters
Irony and happy endings in Beethoven’s string quartet Op. 95/iv
Empirical vignette #1 : Experiment on cinematic listening and Op. 95/iv
A “woman’s way of listening” to Beethoven : Perceiving a lullaby topic in Op. 90/ii and Op. 101/i
Empirical vignette #2 : Experiment on hearing orchestral march topics
Beethoven’s Darth Vader and Op. 26/iii.
Notes:
Series statement from CIP data view.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2025).
Other Format:
Print version: Bourne, Janet. Who listens?
ISBN:
9780197797198
0197797199
0197797202
9780197797204
OCLC:
1514630007
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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