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Emotion and Meaning in Music
Half-Title
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Table of Contents
I. Theory
Past Positions as to the Nature of Musical Experience
The presente position and criticism of past assumptions
Evidence as to the Nature and Existence of the Emotional Response to Music
Subjective evidence
Objective evidence: behavior
Objective evidence: physiological responses
The Psychological Theory of Emotions
Supporting theories
The differentiation of affect
Emotional designation
The Theory of Emotions Related to Musical Experience
An assumption
Tendency and expectation in music
Expectation, suspense, and the unexpected
Conscious and unconscious expectations
The Meaning of Music
The problem of meaning in music
Music and meaning
The objectification of meaning
Meaning and affect
Music and communication
II. Expectation and Learning
Style: Formal Considerations
Sound terms and sound stimuli
Ambiguity
Static versus dynamic: conceptions of musical process
Probability
Form, probability, and expectation
Style and Social Process
Learning and style
The plurality of styles
Patterns of style change
Style changes and the composer
Cyclic change and style
The Preparatory Set
Aesthetic belief
Belief and the presumption of logic
Learned Habits and the Preparatory Set
The influence of knowledge and experience on perception
Motor Attitudes and Motor Responses
III. Principles of Pattern Perception: The Law of Good Continuation
General Considerations
Learning and perception
Difficulties in the application of gestalt concepts
Basic Concepts and Formulations
The law of prägnanz
Thinking, memory, and expectation
The Principles of Pattern Perception
The law of good continuation
Melodic continuity
Rhythmic continuation
Higher levels of rhythmic organization
Metric continuation
IV. Principles of Pattern Perception: Completion and Closure
General Considerations
Structural gaps
Saturation
Melodic completness and closure
Rhythmic completeness and closure
Harmonic completeness and closure
The principle of return
V. Principles of Pattern Perception: The Weakening of Shape
The Nature of Shape
The Weakining of Shape
Uniformity
Minimal Differences
Texture
VI. The Evidence: Deviation in Performance and Tonal Organization
The Nature of the Evidence
Performance and Deviation
Expressive performance in the west
Expressive deviation in non-western music
Ornamentation
Ornamentation in the west
Ornamentation in oriental music
Folk music and primitive music
Tonality and Deviation
Chromaticism
The minor mode in western music
Consonance and dissonance
VII. The Evidence: Simultaneous and Successive Deviation
Sumultaneous Deviation
Successive Deviation
Indirect evidence
VIII. Note on Images Processes, Connotations, and Moods
Image Processes and Affective Experience
Connotation
Mood
The Role of Mood and Connotation in Affective Experience
Connotation, Mood, and Aesthetic Theory
Notes
Notes to chapter I
Notes to chapter II
Notes to chapter III
Notes to chapter IV
Notes to chapter V
Notes to chapter VI
Notes to chapter VII
Notes to chapter VIII
Index