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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- ISBN 9780197797174
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 232x160x20 mm
- Weight 463 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 42 700
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Short description:
Imagine someone who attended a Beethoven Symphony in 1805. Now imagine a listener attending the same symphony today. Both create meanings by relying on previous experiences, but no one assumes they leave their concerts with the same experience. Yet, when analyzing music, we often rely on "ideal listeners," presuming all have the same experience. Who Listens? Experience, Cognition, and Musical Meaning is a fascinating look into the importance of who is listening and how. Author Janet Bourne presents a new set of cognitively-based tools for analyzing music from the perspective of the listener.
MoreLong description:
Imagine someone who attended a Beethoven Symphony in 1805. Now imagine a listener attending the same symphony today. Both create meanings by relying on previous experiences, but no one assumes they leave their concerts with the same experience. Yet, when analyzing music, we often rely on "ideal listeners," presuming all have the same experience. Who Listens? Experience, Cognition, and Musical Meaning is a fascinating look into the importance of who is listening and how. Author Janet Bourne presents a new set of cognitively-based tools for analyzing music from the perspective of the listener.
This book shows how listening is an active and creative act, and that many people make sense of music largely by drawing on their previous experiences, particularly experiences with music. According to research in cognitive science, listeners use a musical form of analogy and categorization to relate what they previously heard to what they hear in the moment. To demonstrate that listeners draw on this experience to perceive meaning when listening, Bourne combines music analytic tools, empirical psychological methods, and reception history. Drawing on analogy and categorization, Bourne has designed cognitively-based tools for analyzing music from the perspective of the listener to create different interpretations for different listeners.
While Part 1 outlines the analytical tools, Part 2 analyzes pieces by Beethoven from the perspective of three groups of listeners: Beethoven's early 19th-century contemporaries; late 20th- and 21st-century musicians and music scholars; and 21st-century film-goers. In so doing, this book illuminates how musical meanings change when considering different listeners' backgrounds and ways of listening, giving voice to overlooked reception histories and musical meanings.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Who's Listening?
Analogy and Listening
Listener Experience, Modes of Listening, and Conceptual Knowledge
Interlude: Creating Composite Listeners and Cast of Characters
Irony and Happy Endings in Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 95/iv
Empirical Vignette
1: Experiment on Cinematic Listening and Op. 95/iv
A "Woman's Way of Listening" to Beethoven: Perceiving a Lullaby Topic in Op. 90/II and Op. 101/I
Empirical Vignette
2: Experiment on Hearing Orchestral March Topics
Beethoven's Darth Vader and Op. 26/iii
Methods and Statistical Results for Empirical Vignette
1
Methods and Statistical Results for Empirical Vignette
2
Cognitive Constraints in Structural Alignment
