ABSTRACT:
The aim of this presentation is to take stock of work in psychoacoustics, psychology and cognitive neuroscience on the (potential) existence of a syntactic processor for music. To address this question using Western tonal music as a stimulus poses a certain number of theoretical and methodological problems that lead us to qualifiy the claim that a syntactic module in music has many similarities with the syntactic processing module of language. This hypothesis would, however, be much easier to validate using other musical sytems, contemporary or non-Western.
Emmanuel Bigand: Musical syntax : Myth or reality?
Emmanuel Bigand is the Director of LEAD (Laboratoire d'étude de l'apprentissage et du développement), CNRS, France
April 06, 2006
16:00 - 18:00