Philippe Schlenker

We provide the outline of a (highly simplified) semantics for music. We take music cognition to be continuous with normal auditory cognition, and thus to deliver inferences about ‘virtual sources’ of the music (as in Bregman’s Auditory Scen

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Part #3: Animal Signals and General Auditory Semantics in Music Cognition “Music cognition is continuous with normal auditory cognition”: sounds that signal danger (“ROAR!”) or that carry meaning on their causes (“BANG!”) are archetypes f

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