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   Oct 2, 2014 · This chapter explores relationships between music and meaning, and between music and ideas of meaning. It reviews conceptualizations of meaning in general before surveying the ways in which meaning has been attributed to music in the course of Western intellectual history, providing a framework within which the privileging of the notion of the ...

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   This article presents an overview of theories of meaning that have been, and that may be, applicable to investigating music, particularly its cognitive dimensions. Some theories have had more impact on the scientific exploration of music's significance than others, which have been unduly neglected.

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   Dec 31, 2013 · The goal of this chapter is to review contemporary empirical research on music and emotion primarily within music psychology. We begin by commenting on the recent history of the field.

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   Sep 1, 2012 · Drawing upon a recent review of the topic by Cross and Tolbert (2009), this paper briefly illustrates the diversity of theories concerning the nature of meanings in music and the challenges...

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   Under this general definition two types of meaning must be distinguished.(1) A stimulus may be meaningful because it indicates or refers to something which 1 Leonard B. Meyer, Emotion and Meaning in Music, (Chicago: University of Chicago

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   determine anything about musical meaning by reducing musical experience to an explanation of perceptual and cognitive processes? From the point of view of most ethnomusicologists, the nature of musical meaning is considered to be inapproachable by empirical studies, especially in light of ethnomusico-

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   What is musical meaning?

   • Contemporary methods of approaching the question of musical meaning have been shaped by a range of theories of meaning. Some theories hold that music is a species of art, which can only be understood as a phenomenon that is not susceptible to analysis in terms of general and formally expressible principles.

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   Does music have meaning?

   • However, the majority cross-disciplinary view is that music is imbued with meaning, whether music is conceived of as aesthetic object, cultural commodity, or social process, yet each discipline tends to propagate ideas of musical meaning that tend to lack the robustness to survive outside its borders.

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   Are musical meanings sociologically motivated?

   • In parallel with reconceptualizations of the idea of musical meaning emerging from anthropological perspectives are sociologically motivated theories that have sought to ground musical meanings in the social and historical contexts of music, particularly in Western culture.

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   What motivates musical meaning?

   • The factors that motivate musical meaning might be expressive, or might have their roots in the structural properties of Western music (particularly in the harmonic domain) that can be analyzed in terms of patterns of tension and resolution.

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   Is music a social phenomenon?

   • Alternative views are found in literatures that aim to explore music as a social phenomenon (whether in Western or non-Western contexts), which tend to be pluralistic in the frameworks that they apply to articulate their understandings of meaning in music, drawing on semiotic, sociological and anthropological theories of meaning.

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   Do musical meanings exist in non-Western cultures?

   • Musical meanings in non-Western contexts have remained largely unexplored from psychological perspectives. This is unsurprising, given the relative dearth of studies of music cognition in non-Western cultures compared to the number of studies conducted in Western contexts (see Stevens and Byron, Chapter 2, this volume).

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   This theory of emotions is related to musical experience in that emotion is aroused when an expectation or tendency to respond, activated by a musical stimu- lus, is temporarily inhibited or permanently blocked.