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This use-theoretic, actional model of musical meaning grounds music's meaningfulness in how music is used to generate effects, how music's efficacies entail social and imaginative transformations upon its contexts of audition, and how we skillfully comport ourselves to meaningful music around us.
Music (definitions of) In this entry I discuss three topics: the options for defining what music essentially is, features often common to the music of different cultures, and music's possible origins.
In this project, I examine the question of the meaning of music through a historical survey of philosophical thinking. From there, I take some of those conclusions and look at them through the eyes of some of the hard sciences.
27 sty 2022 · Understanding music and musical meaning is a central question in various domains such as philosophy, anthropology, social sciences, semiotics and music education.
2 paź 2014 · This chapter explores relationships between music and meaning, and between music and ideas of meaning. It reviews conceptualizations of meaning in general before surveying the ways in which meaning has been attributed to music in the course of Western intellectual history, providing a framework within which the privileging of the notion of the ...
The Meaning of Music Music is commonly seen as a means of communication among people, a kind of literature without the limitations of language, a language without phonemes. People refer to music as a " language of the heart" or as a " universal language." These expressions indicate that people
This article presents an overview of theories of meaning that have been, and that may be, applicable to investigating music, particularly its cognitive dimensions. Some theories have had more impact on the scientific exploration of music's significance than others, which have been unduly neglected.
