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        Sound Actions

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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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