Browsing Empirical Musicology Review: Volume 7, Number 1-2 (2012) by Issue Date
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A Kaleidoscope of Meanings: A Comment on Philip Barnard "What Do We Mean by the Meanings of Music"
Reich, Uli ( 2012-01 )In this response paper, I argue that types of meanings in linguistic utterances which lie beyond propositional meaning can hardly be subsumed in only one category called implicational meaning. Many of these levels of meaning ... -
Musical Rhythm for Linguists: A Response to Justin London
Overy, Katie ( 2012-01 )Musical timing is a rich, complex phenomenon which changes across cultures, periods and styles and requires highly explicit terminology in order to communicate clearly between music theorists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ... -
Finding Rhythm in Speech: A Response to Cummins
Moore, Roger K. ( 2012-01 )This paper attempts to address three critical questions left unanswered by Cummins’ review: are rhythm and entrainment physical, perceptual or social phenomena, what are the underlying mechanisms, and what is their role ... -
Response to Fred Cummins: Looking for Rhythm in Speech
House, David ( 2012-01 )This commentary briefly reviews three aspects of rhythm in speech. The first concerns the issues of what to measure and how measurements should relate to rhythm's communicative functions. The second relates to how tonal ... -
What is Entrainment? Definition and applications in musical research
Clayton, Martin ( 2012-01 )Entrainment theory describes the process of interaction between independent rhythmical processes. This paper defines entrainment in this general sense, then briefly explores its significance for human behaviour, and for ... -
A Language for Musical Qualia
Zentner, Marcel ( 2012-01 )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 ... -
Entraining the Brain: Applications to Language Research and Links to Musical Entrainment
Goswami, Usha ( 2012-01 )Clayton’s paper provides a clear and accessible summary of the significance of entrainment for music making, and for human behaviour in general. He notes the central role of metrical structure in musical entrainment, the ... -
Music, Meaning and Culture
Widdess, Richard ( 2012-01 )This paper situates musical meaning in culture, addressing music as social symbol and as ongoing process of meaning creation. Three examples of non- Western musical practice are used to illustrate the embedding of musical ... -
Rhythm and Time in Music Epitomize the Temporal Dynamics of Human Communicative Behavior: The Broad Implications of London's Trinity
Keller, Peter E. ( 2012-01 )Three key issues about rhythm and timing in music are drawn to the attention of linguists in a paper by London (2012). In this commentary, I argue that these issues are relevant not only to linguists, but also to those in ... -
Editor's Note
Keller, Peter E. ( 2012-01 ) -
Meaning and Entrainment in Language and Music Special Issue: Introduction
Franco, Fabia; Cross, Ian ( 2012-01 ) -
Looking for Rhythm in Speech
Cummins, Fred ( 2012-01 )A brief review is provided of the study of rhythm in speech. Much of that activity has focused on looking for empirical measures that would support the categorization of languages into discrete rhythm ‘types’. That activity ... -
Musical Entrainment Subsumes Bodily Gestures – Its Definition Needs a Spatiotemporal Dimension
Leman, Marc ( 2012-01 )In his paper “What is entrainment? Definition and applications in musical research” (this issue), M. Clayton offers a definition of entrainment that is based on a timing dimension (relative phase relationships). However, ... -
What Do We Mean by the Meanings of Music?
Barnard, Philip J. ( 2012-01 )Drawing upon a recent review of the topic by Cross and Tolbert (2009), this paper briefly illustrates the diversity of theories concerning the nature of meanings in music and the challenges that need to be resolved to ... -
Response to Richard Widdess: Music, Meaning and Culture
Lewis, Jerome ( 2012-01 )This commentary discusses the anthropological implications of Richard Widess’ paper by summarizing some anthropological approaches to music, especially focusing on the way musical participation inculcates and transmits an ... -
Musics, Cultures and Meanings: Music as Communication
Cross, Ian ( 2012-01 )This commentary explores interpretations of concepts that lie at the focus of Richard Widdess's paper—"music", and "culture"—with the aim of specifying frameworks within which issues of musical meaning can fruitfully be addressed. -
Three Things Linguists Need to Know About Rhythm and Time in Music
London, Justin ( 2012-01 )This paper, directed at researchers in linguistics, introduces three key aspects of musical rhythm and time for their consideration: (1) the distinction between groups of durations (i.e., acoustical events in the world) ...