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Conceptualizing Musical Instruments

by Alexander Refsum Jensenius

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

Musical Bodies, Musical Minds

Musical Bodies, Musical Minds

Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality

by Dylan van der Schyff, Andrea Schiavio and David J. Elliott

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

Between the Tracks

Between the Tracks

Musicians on Selected Electronic Music

Edited by Miller Puckette and Kerry L. Hagan

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

The Musical Representation

The Musical Representation

Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion

by Charles O. Nussbaum

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

Music and Probability

Music and Probability

by David Temperley

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

Understanding the Art of Sound Organization

by Leigh Landy

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

Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology

by Marc Leman

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

Music Analysis East and West

Music Analysis East and West

Computing in Musicology 14

Edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field

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

The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures

by David Temperley

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

Ways of the Hand

Ways of the Hand

A Rewritten Account

by David Sudnow

Foreword by Hubert L. Dreyfus

ISBN: 9780262537704

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 7, 2001

A detailed account of the experience of learning to improvise on the piano.
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