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- Title
Constituting the Musical Object: A Neurophenomenological Perspective on Musical Research.
- Authors
Schiavio, Andrea
- Abstract
Despite an apparent common agreement on the impossibility to define correctly the complex phenomenon of music, some authors continue to look explicitly for a strict definition, while other contributors assume implicitly a predefined notion of music, often based on a modular conception of the mind/brain. While musical analysis and standard musicology focus on the objectiveness of the musical material, some trends in psychology of music consider only the neural correlates of specific musical abilities. As those perspectives study distinctly subjective and objective aspects of musicality, the main goal of this paper is to provide a different approach for musical investigation, considering the relation between music and the perceiver/executer an inseparable feature of any musical experience. Analyzing the classical Husserlian position on intentionality, I will (i) introduce the pivotal notion of constitution of a musical object, (ii) consider the contributions of Merleu-Ponty and of the finding in cognitive neuroscience of a mirror mechanism of action understanding, and their implication for the concept of intentionality and (iii) claim that musical intentionality is a cross modal, but intrinsically motor, intentionality.
- Subjects
MUSICAL perception; MUSICAL aesthetics; PHENOMENOLOGY &; music; PHILOSOPHY of mind; MERLEAU-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961; MUSICOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES &; the arts
- Publication
Teorema, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 3, p63
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article