Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music) - Hardcover

Zbikowski, Lawrence M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195140230 ISBN 13: 9780195140231

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 a vocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.

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Review:

"It's strengths -and there are many-lie in its explicitness and in the values it brings to the exposition of musicological issues, and in the exemplary breadth and depth of knowledge across the fields of musicology and the cognitive sciences which it embodies...Zbikowski is to be applauded." --
Journal of the American Musicological Society
"It's strengths -and there are many-lie in its explicitness and in the values it brings to the exposition of musicological issues, and in the exemplary breadth and depth of knowledge across the fields of musicology and the cognitive sciences which it embodies...Zbikowski is to be applauded." --
Journal of the American Musicological Society
"It's strengths -and there are many-lie in its explicitness and in the values it brings to the exposition of musicological issues, and in the exemplary breadth and depth of knowledge across the fields of musicology and the cognitive sciences which it embodies...Zbikowski is to be applauded." -- Journal of the American Musicological Society
"It's strengths -and there are many-lie in its explicitness and in the values it brings to the exposition of musicological issues, and in the exemplary breadth and depth of knowledge across the fields of musicology and the cognitive sciences which it embodies...Zbikowski is to be applauded." -- Journal of the American Musicological Society

"Zbikowski's comprehensive account of the ways in which music can be interpreted in terms of its conceptual dimensions in cognition constitutes a significant contribution to the understanding of music in cognitive terms."--Journal of the American Musicological Society

"Zbikowski embraces many discreet strands in the gamut of thought on music theory and cognitive psychology in this groundbreaking study. He provides a clear outline of each field of research, both historical and contemporary, before carefully weaving them together...Recommended."--Choice

"Zbikowski's comprehensive account of the ways in which music can be interpreted in terms of its conceptual dimensions in cognition constitutes a significant contribution to the understanding of music in cognitive terms."--Journal of the American Musicological Society

"Zbikowski embraces many discreet strands in the gamut of thought on music theory and cognitive psychology in this groundbreaking study. He provides a clear outline of each field of research, both historical and contemporary, before carefully weaving them together...Recommended."--Choice

About the Author:

Lawrence Zbikowski has taught music theory and analysis at the University of Chicago since 1993, and will be a visitor at Getty- CASBS research group on Cognition, Brain, and Art during the 2001-2002 academic year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195140230
• ISBN 13: 9780195140231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380