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Author Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael, author.

Title Foundations of musical grammar / Lawrence M. Zbikowski.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford studies in music theory
Oxford studies in music theory.
Note Includes index.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series; Foundations of Musical Grammar; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Origins; Music and Language in Human Cultures; Foundations of Musical Grammar; Musical Grammar and Music Theory; 2. Music and Analogy; Analogy; Perceptual Symbol Systems, Embodied Knowledge, and Analogy; Sonic Analogs and Systems of Reference; Sonic Analogs for Dynamic Processes; Analogy and Imagination; Conclusion; 3. Music and Emotion; Recent Research on Emotion; Recent Research on Music and Emotion; Music, Emotions, and Sonic Analogs; Conclusion; 4. Music and Gesture.
Gesture and LanguageThe Infrastructure of Human Communication; Music and Movement; Music and Gesture; Conclusion; 5. Music and Dance; Music and Dance in the Ancien Régime; Of Waltzes and Waltz Music; Conclusion: Music, Social Dance, and Musical Grammar; 6. Music and Words; "Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh"; Music, Words, and Song; Conclusion; 7. Questions, Answers, Questions; Sonic Analogs for Dynamic Processes; The Elements of Musical Grammar; Prospects for a Cognitive Grammar of Music; Works Cited; Index.
Summary Foundations of Musical Grammar makes a unique contribution to music theory by building on recent research in cognitive science and theoretical perspectives adopted from cognitive linguistics to present an account of the foundations of musical grammar. In presenting this account, it engages with music and the emotions, gesture, and social dance.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music and language.
Music and language.
Music -- Semiotics.
Music -- Semiotics.
Music -- Social aspects.
Music and dance.
Music -- Social aspects.
Music and dance.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael. Foundations of musical grammar. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] 9780190653637 (DLC) 2016051731 (OCoLC)962409778
ISBN 9780190653644 (electronic book)
0190653647 (electronic book)
9780190653668
0190653663
9780190653637
0190653639
9780190653651 (epub)
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