| Music and Conceptualization Contributor(s): Debellis, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521403316 ISBN-13: 9780521403313 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: This book is a philosophical study of the content of mental representations of music. The central problem it addresses is as follows: how is it possible to describe a listener's cognition using music-theoretic concepts the listener does not possess? The author explains what it is for music cognition to be nonconceptual and how such mental representation contrasts with conceptual thought. The author is both a philosopher and a musicologist and uniquely combines the perspectives of both disciplines. Exploring philosophical questions of mental representation in the relatively neglected, non-verbal domain of music, this study is a major contribution to the philosophical understanding of music perception and cognitive theory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Appreciation - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 781.11 |
| LCCN: 95002405 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.29" W x 9.25" (0.83 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is: how is it possible to talk about what a listener perceives in terms that the listener does not recognize? By applying the concepts and techniques of analytic philosophy, the author explores the ways in which musical hearing may be described as nonconceptual, and how such mental representation contrasts with conceptual thought. |