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0845-4133-01 | Musical Meanings: Empirical Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Does music denote, connote or imply “extra-musical” meanings? Can it refer to non-musical domains – to objects other than sounds, to events or processes, to time, or to thoughts, ideas and emotions? And if music can indeed convey “meanings” – what aspects of organized musical sound, and what facets of human perception, cognition and action may serve as substrates for such perceived musical meanings?