MeaningS of Sound
MeaningS of Sound
MeaningS of Sound
Robert Reigle
2010-10-04
To determine what music means, we must first expand the
standard palette of analyzed objects beyond the confines of music
(such as musical works or motifs), social referent (musics function
in a society), and culture (music as cultural agent), to include both
the microelements of sound itself and the aggregates of sounds
heard during ones lifetime.
Cognitive scientists,
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motives,
phrases,
melodies,
or
complete
works.
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the
sounds
components of a note.
of
short
duration,
single
entities,
and
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feelings,
and
experiences
at
that
moment.
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the events surrounding performance, as well as ideas of the wellbeing of the group, because it depends on the successful germination
of the millet. The relationship between these two examples raises
questions of spatial metaphors and of spiritual transcendence.
Cataloging the sounds heard over a lifetime could help answer such
questions.
To summarize, in this paper I present a hypothesis that a
broader view of the constituents of the meanings of sound itself may
lead to a deeper understanding of musical sound. This view should
include some understanding of the aggregates of sounds heard
during ones lifetime, on both the macro and micro levels. Research
done
by
linguists
can
help
us
understand
the
micro-sound
aggregates, and can provide models for parsing sounds and for
determining associations between sounds and meanings.
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