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Music and embodied cognition : listening, moving, feeling, and thinking /

"Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory...

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Main Authors: Cox, Arnie, 1963
Published: Indiana University Press,
Publisher Address: Bloomington :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Musical meaning and interpretation
Subjects:
Music > Psychological aspects
Emotions and cognition
Emotions in music
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Summary: "Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the "mimetic hypothesis," the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music. Through an often unconscious imitation of action and sound, we feel the music as it
Carrier Form: vii, 288 pages : illustrations, music, forms ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-272) and index.
ISBN: 9780253021601 (hardback) :
025302160X (hardback)
Index Number: ML3830
CLC: J60-051
Call Number: J60-051/C877
Contents: Introduction -- Theoretical background. Mimetic comprehension -- Mimetic comprehension of music -- Metaphor and related means of reasoning -- Spatial conceptions. Pitch height -- Temporal motion and musical motion -- Perspectives on musical motion -- Beyond musical space. Music and the external senses -- Musical affect -- Applications -- Review and implications -- Appendix I. Mimetic subvocalization and absolute pitch -- Appendix II. Levels of abstraction among metaphors.

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