A Language for Musical Qualia

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dc.creator	Zentner, Marcel
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-13T01:49:33Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-13T01:49:33Z
dc.date.issued	2012-01
dc.identifier.citation	Empirical Musicology Review, v7 n1-2 (Jan-Apr 2012), 80-83	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1559-5749
dc.identifier.other	EMR0000138b
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52983
dc.description.abstract	In this commentary I build on Phil Barnard’s distinction of implicational and propositional meanings as an incentive to explore possibilities for bridging the two types of meanings. I argue that, contrary to the claim that musical experiences are ineffable, the subtle implicational meanings that make up the experiential richness of musical qualia may be amenable to linguistic description and objectification, provided that a suitable language is being used. Taking music-evoked emotional experiences as an example, I sketch the contours of such a language and also discuss criteria by which the suitability of a language to characterize musical qualia may be evaluated.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Empirical Musicology Review	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	EMR0000138b	en_US
dc.subject	meaning	en_US
dc.subject	linguistic description	en_US
dc.subject	emotive vocabulary	en_US
dc.subject	qualia	en_US
dc.title	A Language for Musical Qualia	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US