Language, music, fire, and chess: Remarks on music evolution and acquisition

John Frederick Bailyn

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27498-0_3

Language, music, fire, and chess: Remarks on music evolution and acquisition

John Frederick Bailyn

Linguistics

Stony Brook University

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The article explores the problem of meaning perception in music. It gives a short review of the main issues discussed in Russian studies on relation of language and music. The paper deals with the experimental data of a sample case study. The data of associative and semantic differential experiment shows that understanding of the meaning of music depends on how familiar listener is with the music. A well-known melody is a part of the world’s image, having a specific place in the conceptual system, thus, the meaning of its cognitive frame [30] is used. On the other hand, if the musical fragment does not belong to a frame, its perception is limited to its emotional impact which is perceived as its meaning.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Language, Music, and Computing - 1st International Workshop, LMAC 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Natalia Konstantinova, Polina Eismont
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	27-44
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Print)	9783319274973
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27498-0_3
State	Published - 2015
Event	1st International Workshop on Language, Music, and Computing, LMAC 2015 - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Duration: Apr 20 2015 → Apr 22 2015

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Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	561

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Conference	1st International Workshop on Language, Music, and Computing, LMAC 2015
Country/Territory	Russian Federation
City	St. Petersburg
Period	04/20/15 → 04/22/15

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Bailyn, J. F. (2015). Language, music, fire, and chess: Remarks on music evolution and acquisition. In N. Konstantinova, & P. Eismont (Eds.), Language, Music, and Computing - 1st International Workshop, LMAC 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 27-44). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 561). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27498-0_3

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Language, music, fire, and chess: Remarks on music evolution and acquisition. / Bailyn, John Frederick.
Language, Music, and Computing - 1st International Workshop, LMAC 2015, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Natalia Konstantinova; Polina Eismont. Springer Verlag, 2015. p. 27-44 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 561).

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