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Varieties of musical experience (2006)
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@MISC{Bharucha06varietiesof,
author = {Jamshed J. Bharucha and Meagan Curtis and Kaivon Paroo},
title = { Varieties of musical experience},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
In this paper, we argue that music cognition involves the use of acoustic and auditory codes to evoke a variety of conscious experiences. The variety of domains that are encompassed by music is so diverse that it is unclear whether a single domain of structure or experience is defining. Music is best understood as a form of communication in which formal codes (acoustic patterns and their auditory representations) are employed to elicit a variety of conscious experiences. After proposing our theoretical perspective we offer three prominent examples of conscious experiences elicited by the code of music: the recognition of structure itself, affect, and the experience of motion.
