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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Prelude Insights from the Blind
1. How Does Music Work?
Heinrich Schenker: The Radical Conservative
Positivism and Postmodern Approaches
Music Analysis Using Linguistic Models
Explaining Music in its Own Terms: Arnold Schoenberg
Degrees of Repetition
Intervals and Transposition
Coda
2. The Zygonic Conjecture
Derek
Building a New Theory of How Music Works
Connections between Connections
Frameworks of Pitch
Rhythm and Metre
Timbre, Loudness and Location
Coda
3. How We Construct Musical Meaning
Structure in Music and Syntax in Language
Responding to Sound
Structure and Content in Music
Meaning in Language
Meaning in Music: The Art of Simplicity in Sound
Complexity and the Problem of ‘Greatness’
Other Forms of Musical Meaning
Defining Music
What isn’t Music?
Coda
4. We Are All Musical
From Music Theory to Developmental Psychology
The Sounds of Intent Project
Musicality in Blind Children and Those on the Autism Spectrum
Exceptional Musical Ability: Savants
Coda
5. Composing, Performing and Listening
The Challenge of Understanding Composers’ Work
Defining Originality in Music
What Constitutes a Piece of Music?
Understanding the Listening Experience
The Problem of ‘Atonal’ Music
Coda
Postlude -Notes Compared
Notes
Further Reading
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Index
Also by Adam Ockelford
Copyright
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