MUSICAL THINKING REVISITED: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
MUSICAL THINKING REVISITED: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: Following the trail set by Jerrold Levinson in his paper Musical Thinking, the authorfocuses on purely instrumental music as perfectly realizing the ideal of wordless thought of thecomposer, performer, and listener − considering not only intellectual processes but also bodi-ly and prereflective responses to musical stimuli. Philosophical speculations on the modes ofmusical thinking are presented in the article from an interdisciplinary perspective. Thanks tothis, some intuitions rooted in the humanities are subjected to criticism. Apart from musicologyand philosophy, the author reaches into neuroaesthetics and neurobiology.

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