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Conceptualizing Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780262544634
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
A techno-cognitive look at how new technologies are shaping the future of musicking.
Musical Bodies, Musical Minds
Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality
ISBN: 9780262045223
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 30, 2022
An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more.
Between the Tracks
Musicians on Selected Electronic Music
ISBN: 9780262539302
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2020
A collection that goes beyond the canon to analyze influential yet under-examined works of electronic music.
The Musical Representation
Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion
ISBN: 9780262517454
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
A naturalistic philosophical theory of musical representation that argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals.
Music and Probability
ISBN: 9780262515191
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 13, 2010
Exploring the application of Bayesian probabilistic modeling techniques to musical issues, including the perception of key and meter.
Understanding the Art of Sound Organization
Understanding the Art of Sound Organization
ISBN: 9780262529259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2007
The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, and acoustic and digital sound installations.
Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology
Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology
ISBN: 9780262122931
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2007
A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising framework for thinking about music mediation technology.
Music Analysis East and West
Computing in Musicology 14
ISBN: 9780262582704
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 7, 2006
Computing approaches to the representation, interchange, and analysis of musical repertories that do not use conventional notation—in particular, early Western European music and the art music of non-Western cultures.
The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures
The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures
ISBN: 9780262701051
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2004
In this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phrase structure, counterpoint, pitch spelling,...
Ways of the Hand
A Rewritten Account
ISBN: 9780262537704
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 7, 2001
A detailed account of the experience of learning to improvise on the piano.

Sound Actions
Conceptualizing Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780262544634
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
Musical Bodies, Musical Minds
Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality
ISBN: 9780262045223
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 30, 2022
Between the Tracks
Musicians on Selected Electronic Music
ISBN: 9780262539302
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2020
The Musical Representation
Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion
ISBN: 9780262517454
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
Music and Probability
ISBN: 9780262515191
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 13, 2010
Understanding the Art of Sound Organization
Understanding the Art of Sound Organization
ISBN: 9780262529259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2007
Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology
Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology
ISBN: 9780262122931
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2007
Music Analysis East and West
Computing in Musicology 14
ISBN: 9780262582704
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 7, 2006
The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures
The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures
ISBN: 9780262701051
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2004
Ways of the Hand
A Rewritten Account
ISBN: 9780262537704
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 7, 2001