Research has investigated psychological processes in an attempt to explain how and why
people appreciate music. Three programs of research have shed light on these processes …

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional
musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that …

For the listener-viewer, the musical and visual aspects of multimedia can relate in diverse
ways, each of which may affect the perceived meaning of the conjoined artifact (see Cohen …

The classical, disembodied approach to music cognition conceptualizes action and
perception as separate, peripheral processes. In contrast, embodied accounts of music …

La investigación produce conocimiento. Pero¿ qué clase de conocimiento persigue la
investigación artística?¿ No es el arte en sí mismo el producto de una investigación?¿ Tiene …

How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating
sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski argues that humans' …

What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and
how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality …

Body movement is integral to both performance and perception of music, and this
dissertation suggests that we also think about music as movement. Based on ideas of …

Over the past decade, embodied music cognition has become an influential paradigm in
music research. The paradigm holds that music cognition is strongly determined by …

Listening to sounds or music is not a homogeneous act of grasping meanings by hearing.
Yet it is often portrayed as such, especially when the intentional stance of a listener is …