Foundations of Musical Grammar 1st Edition by Lawrence M Zbikowski ISBN 0190653655 9780190653651

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ISBN 10: 0190653655 
ISBN 13: 9780190653651
Author: Lawrence M Zbikowski

In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Lawrence M. Zbikowski puts forward Foundations of Musical Grammar, an ambitious and broadly encompassing account on the foundations of musical grammar based on our current understanding of human cognitive capacities. Musical grammar is conceived of as a species of construction grammar, in which grammatical elements are form-function pairs. Zbikowski proposes that the basic function of music is to provide sonic analogs for dynamic processes that are important in human cultural interactions. He focuses on three such processes: those concerned with the emotions, the spontaneous gestures that accompany speech, and the patterned movement of dance. Throughout the book, Zbikowski connects cognitive research with music theory for an interdisciplinary audience, presenting detailed musical analyses and summaries of the basic elements of musical grammar.

Foundations of Musical Grammar 1st Table of contents:

1. Origins
Music and Language in Human Cultures
Foundations of Musical Grammar
Musical Grammar and Music Theory
2. Music and Analogy
Analogy
Perceptual Symbol Systems, Embodied Knowledge, and Analogy
Sonic Analogs and Systems of Reference
Sonic Analogs for Dynamic Processes
Analogy and Imagination
Conclusion
3. Music and Emotion
Recent Research on Emotion
Recent Research on Music and Emotion
Music, Emotions, and Sonic Analogs
Conclusion
4. Music and Gesture
Gesture and Language
The Infrastructure of Human Communication
Music and Movement
Music and Gesture
Conclusion
5. Music and Dance
Music and Dance in the Ancien Régime
Of Waltzes and Waltz Music
Conclusion: Music, Social Dance, and Musical Grammar
6. Music and Words
“Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh”
Music, Words, and Song
Conclusion
7. Questions, Answers, Questions
Sonic Analogs for Dynamic Processes
The Elements of Musical Grammar
Prospects for a Cognitive Grammar of Music

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