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20 maj 2021 · Using a socio-cultural semiotic tool to identify musical modes, this article examines the ensembles of modes used during music learning events and considers how this knowledge may improve...
23 kwi 2009 · The chapter adduces a theory of meaning in music, in which the experience of music is accounted for in specific ways by reference to principles that are said to underlie both animal...
1 wrz 2012 · This commentary explores interpretations of concepts that lie at the focus of Richard Widdess's paper—"music", and "culture"—with the aim of specifying frameworks within which issues of...
Abstract. This chapter draws on ethnomusicological, cognitive and neuroscientific evidence in proposing that music is a communicative medium with features that are optimised for the management of situations of social uncertainty, and that music and language constitute complementary components of the human communicative toolkit.
14 lip 2005 · The book examines how music can be used to communicate and the biological, cognitive, social, and cultural processes which underlie such communication. This book takes a broad, interdisciplinary look at all aspects of communication, from the symbolic aspects of musical notation, to the use of music in advertising.
Summary. If we define music as a non-verbal means of communication, the implication is that something is being communicated. The question, of course, is what? Is it tones? Or meanings? Is it a story? Or an abstraction?
This chapter first sets out the purpose of the book, which is to explain the musical, social, and cultural processes that underlie the eventual realization of the acoustic performance event (by the composer, performer, arranger, and all others involved), the means by which they lead to the listener's response, and thence to short and long-term ...
