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HLM 672 - Cognitive Music History


3 credit(s)
This course studies the cognitive links between musical style and practice. The three central topics are (1) tension between musical sound and silence, (2) aesthetics of metrical ambiguity, and (3) mental processing of musical texture. Generally speaking, the course incorporates elementary perception psychology into conventional style–historical discourse about music.


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