Structural analysis and Cognitive activity, Towards Real-Time Methods in Musical Analysis

Autor: Jean-Marc Chouvel
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Journal of New Music Research. 33:19-29
ISSN: 0929-8215
Popis: Structuralism and cognitivism have been confronted in their attempt to provide a method to musical analysis. The aim of musical analysis appears to be the description and explanation of the relations between the events constitutive of a work (internal analysis) and between those events and other fields (external analysis). Similarity and grouping appears to be the main kind of relations for internal analysis. This capacity of joining up events has to be related to the cognitive processes involved in the act of listening. A real-time procedure allowing to give account of those relations is proposed and illustrated with an example taken from Mozart’s last Piano Sonatas. The way this analysis is performed provides a description of the cognitive activity suggested by the score according to “cognitive phases” specified at each level of the structure. It allows to give a global conceptual frame for the analysis of any kind of music, but also a model for listening able to take into account different kind of list...
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