Experiencing musical time / Kristina Knowles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knowles, Kristina, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in music.

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Time--Psychological aspects.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Experiencing Musical Time' tackles the question of these temporal experiences with music through an interdisciplinary lens, connecting research in psychology and neuroscience to theories and analyses of music. Drawing from empirical research on time perception to ground the language and metaphors we use to describe time in music, Kristina Knowles demonstrates new ways of understanding and conceptualizing interactions between musical structures and temporal experiences. Taking a synoptic approach to musical time, Knowles weaves together a wide array of theories, methods, and empirical findings in analyses of various musical repertoires, including the common practice period, popular music, jazz, and postmodern musical styles.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Examples

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter Outline

A Note on Repertoire

1 A Theory of Musical Time(s)

A Plethora of Times

Concepts and Categories

The Interacting Categories of Musical Time

2 A Model of Musical Time(s)

Time as External: Objective Time

Clock Time as a Compositional Technique

Objections to Time as External

Time as Internal: Subjective Time

How Does One Measure Subjective Time?

Time as Musical: Musical Time

The Semiotics of Musical Time

Discussions of Musical Time as Perceived

Musical Time and the Body

Conclusion

3 The Experience of Musical Time

What Do We Perceive When We Perceive Time?

The Specious Present

Grouping and Remembered Duration

Attention and Perceived Time

Event Density and the Pacemaker-Accumulator Model

A Note on Density Versus Complexity

Linear Oscillator Models and the Dynamic Attending Theory

Attending to Musical Structures

Emotion, Arousal, and the Anterior Insular Cortex

Neurological Bases for Time Perception

The Role of the Body on Temporal Experiences

4 Meter and Its Temporalities

Objective and Subjective Approaches to Meter

Meter as Measure

Meter as Subjective Attending

5 Recovering Time in Meter: A Qualitative Perspective

Quantitative Versus Qualitative Approaches to Meter

The Feeling of Duration

A Rejection of Spatial Concepts

Meter as an In-Time Process

6 Of Circles and Lines

Cyclical and Linear Representations of Meter

Linearity in Meter: Teleology and Entrainment

Cyclicity in Meter: Return and Repetition

Nested Temporalities

7 Unraveling Timelessness in Music

Questioning Timelessness

Timelessness and Human Experience

Music as a Temporal Art Form.

Timelessness as Concept Versus Timelessness as Percept

Timelessness as a Musicotemporal Concept

Experiences of Timelessness

A Brief Neuropsychological Look at Altered States of Consciousness

Trance-Like States and the Embodied "Now"

Timelessness as a Generic Feature: Minimalism and EDM

8 Nostalgia and the Extended Present

Nostalgia and Memory in Music

Musical Signifiers of Memory

Memory and Musical Nostalgia

Time in the Pastoral

Temporality and Loss in Romantic Pastorals

Shifting Signifiers: Pastoral Time in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

9 Exploring Timelessness in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Music

A Framework for Musical Timelessness in Contemporary Music

The Presence or Absence of a Temporal Framework

Silence and (Dis)continuity

Texture and Event Density

Thin-Sparse and Thick-Dense Textures

Textural Materials in Contemporary Music

Appendix

Prospective Versus Retrospective Methods

Type of Response Task

Subjective Time or Objective Time

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 21, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-766826-7

0-19-766827-5

0-19-766825-9

OCLC:

1515176293