Stefan Koelsch has chosen a hard problem in exploring the responses of listeners to aspects of meaning in western common-practice period tonal-harmonic music. This is a highly culturally-particularized art-music that has accreted strata of discursive significance likely to condition its experience i
The meanings of semantics: Comment on “Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics” by Stefan Koelsch
✍ Scribed by Uli Reich
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1571-0645
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