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Author Cox, Arnie, 1963- author.

Title Music and embodied cognition : listening, moving, feeling, and thinking / Arnie Cox
Published Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series Musical meaning and interpretation
Musical meaning and interpretation.
Contents Mimetic comprehension -- Mimetic comprehension of music -- Metaphor and related means of reasoning -- Pitch height -- Temporal motion and musical motion -- Perspectives on musical motion -- Music and the external senses -- Musical affect -- Applications -- Review and implications
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 moves and grows. With applications to tonal and post-tonal Western classical music, to Western vernacular music, and to non-Western music, Cox's work stands to expand the range of phenomena that can be explained by the role of sensory, motor, and affective aspects of human experience and cognition."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Music -- Psychological aspects.
Emotions and cognition.
Emotions in music.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Emotions and cognition
Emotions in music
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Music -- Psychological aspects
Embodiment
Kognitionswissenschaft
Musik
Musikhören
Musikpsychologie
Neurowissenschaften
Phänomenologie
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253021670
0253021677