On the Moods of a Music-Logic

Seeger, Charles

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“…It is the brains' capacity to form meaning from these units and the underlying sequential structure that provide a springboard to the development and acquisition of language itself. Similar principles are found in music, where in Western music, for example, single notes are analogous to phonemes, and small groups of notes that regularly co-occur (Cooke, 1959;Narmour, 1990) are analogous to morphemes or, alternately, 'musemes' (Seeger, 1960), and so-forth. In dance, with the possible exception of some high Figure 1: Visual analogy of the transition from scaling to lapsing using the theory of limiting sums to calculate area under a curve in mathematical calculus.…”

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Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science

2010

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. Submissions to the conference were reviewed by the Program Committee, who came up with an excellent program of 106 presented papers (in three parallel-track sessions, and including eight submitted symposia) and 20 posters (on show throughout the conference, but highlighted in an enjoyable poster session over drinks on day 2). The full program, along with other information about the conference, remains online at http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ascs09. The Australasian Society for Cognitive Science has had an intermittent formal existence, driven mainly by the organization of its string of enjoyable, successful, and highly sociable conferences, which have taken place roughly every two years since the inaugural conference, organized by Peter Slezak, at the University of New South Wales in 1990 (a full list of past conferences is appended below).At the 9 th conference at Macquarie, 163 people attended, including substantial numbers from overseas and interstate, enjoying both the sweet Sydney spring weather and three stimulating days of talks and talk. There was no specific theme, but in addition to specialist research papers within specific sub/disciplines, we encouraged integrative papers which forge connections between sub/disciplines. This integrative ideal also informed invitations to our five excellent keynote speakers: Stephen Crain (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science), Jakob Hohwy (Philosophy, Monash University), Jason Mattingley (Psychology & Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland), Thomas Metzinger (Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz; & Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Germany, and Barbara Tversky (Psychology, Stanford University; & Columbia University, USA). Versions of three of these keynote talks appear in these proceedings: the papers by Jason Mattingley and Thomas Metzinger have been published elsewhere.Perhaps because the cognitive science community in Australasia is relatively small, compared at least with our counterparts in Asia, Europe, and North America, it retains a thoroughly multidisciplinary atmosphere. The programme confirmed the striking pluralism of the contemporary cognitive sciences, drawing on many distinctive disciplines as researchers on cognition are looking both down into the brain and out into the environment. Most contributions were from psychologists, with sizable numbers from philosophy and linguistics: but many other areas were also represented, including computational neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, clinical psychology, computer science, human-computer interaction, anthropology, education, history and philosophy of science, cognitive archaeology, cognitive ethology, English literature, and cultural history.All those who had presented papers and posters were invited to submit revised versions, following the conference, as full contributions to the published Proceedings. All submissions were reviewed afresh, and revisions were submitted in early 2010: we are delighted to thank our team of reviewers for their hard and effective work.Fifty-seven p...

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2010

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“…Another important work from the same period is "On the Moods of a Music-Logic," by musicologist Charles Seeger (1960). In this text, Seeger does not really take on the problem of musical meaning.…”

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Musical Semiotics as a Tool for the Social Study of Music. By Óscar Hernández Salgar. Translated by Brenda M. Romero.

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Recent studies on musical signification have been characterized by an apparently insurmountable gap between disciplines that focus on the musical text as sound (music theory, musicology), those that focus on the hearing subject (cognitive sciences, psychology of music), and those that focus on social discourses about music (ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology). This article argues that the most recent theoretical advances in music semiotics provide means to overcome this gap. After a brief examination of some key concepts in music semiotics, the author identifies three approaches to this problem: the semiotic-hermeneutic approach, the cognitive-embodied approach, and the social-political approach. This classification allows him to introduce a brief methodological proposal for the study of musical signification from different academic perspectives.Originally published in Spanish in Cuadernos de Música, Artes Visuales, y Artes Escénicas 7, no. 1 (January 2011):39-77.

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“…Dans sa réflexion, elle propose une approche novatrice de l'espace musical qui tend vers l'étude des nouveaux espaces comme élément de « réenchantement » du monde, plutôt que comme fond sonore non « légitimé » (p. 741). L'article novateur de Philip Tagg, « Significations musicales dans les musiques classiques et populaires » (p. 743-772), analyse l'expression musicale de l'angoisse dans plus d'une vingtaine de compositions à partir de la théorie des « musèmes » (Seeger, 1960), qui permet selon Tagg de comprendre ce que la musique signifie au-delà d'elle-même.…”

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Musiques. Une Encyclopédie pour le XXI siècle. 2007. « 5. L’Unité de la musique », sous la direction de Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Arles-Paris : Actes Sud/Cité de la musique, 1253 p., ISBN 978-2-7427-6974-2 (couverture rigide)

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On the Moods of a Music-Logic

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Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science

Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science

Musical Semiotics as a Tool for the Social Study of Music. By Óscar Hernández Salgar. Translated by Brenda M. Romero.

Musiques. Une Encyclopédie pour le XXI siècle. 2007. « 5. L’Unité de la musique », sous la direction de Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Arles-Paris : Actes Sud/Cité de la musique, 1253 p., ISBN 978-2-7427-6974-2 (couverture rigide)

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