On Monday, Sep 9, 2002, at 13:48 Australia/Brisbane, Dan Gutwein wrote:
> I shouldn't be responding to this merely because it's 11:48 p.m. and
> I'm out on my feet - and because I teach a course in "Music and Mind"
> to undergraduates - but really shouldn't be doing so because I don't
> publish in the area - anyway here goes.
Would love to hear more about what that course entails :-)
> The harder one looks at questions such as these, the less one is
> convinced that there are significant overlaps between "linguistic
> experience" and music-reading, music-listening, or music-producing.
> So, to what extent does speech/language-based analysis occur during
> playing and listening to music? My guess is that it varies depending
> on the training (i.e. life experience) of the person in question. The
> training will determine the extent to which the brain fires off
> lateral associations (cross-knowledge-base brain activity) during
> visual/lexical/symbolic/aural perception. Of course, the intensity of
> these associations will enrich the meaning for the individual.
A question that strikes me, then, is to compare music to language as
expressions of, correspondingly, emotional state vs intellectual or
symbolic state.
I don't teach music, nor mind, but information modeling... :-)
Ralf
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Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland Qld 4072 Australia
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