Who Listens? by Janet Bourne - 9780197797167

Who Listens?Experience, Cognition, and Musical Meaning\nAuthor(s): Janet Bourne\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197797167, 978-0197797167\nSynopsis\nImagine someone who attended a Beethoven Symphony in 1805. Now imagine a listener attending the same symphony today. Both create meanings by relying on previous experiences, but no one assumes they leave their concerts with the same experience. Yet, when analyzing music, we often rely on \""ideal listeners,\"" presuming all have the same experience. Who Listens? Experience, Cognition, and Musical Meaning is a fascinating look into the importance of who is listening and how. Author Janet Bourne presents a new set of cognitively-based tools for analyzing music from the perspective of the listener.\n\nThis book shows how listening is an active and creative act, and that many people make sense of music largely by drawing on their previous experiences, .