Music and Conceptualization

Download or read book Music and Conceptualization written by Mark DeBellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is as follows: how is it possible to talk about what a listener perceives in terms that the listener does not recognize? By applying the concepts and techniques of analytic philosophy the author explores the ways in which musical hearing may be described as nonconceptual, and how such mental representation contrasts with conceptual thought.