Making Sense with the Body in Music. The Enlarged Reality of Music Cognition

Authors

  • Isabel Cecilia Martínez Laboratorio para el Estudio de la Experiencia Musical. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

embodied music cognition, sense making, cognitive reality, musical experience, musical analysis

Abstract

The question of the nature of music as an object of knowledge underlies the constructs of the analytical and interpretative approaches of music treatises in the Western academy. However, the ontological problem does not end there. A parallel path in the field of music psychology has investigated the experiential dimension of music as a sonic stimulus, together with the mechanisms and processes of perception and action that are involved in the cognition of musical works. It is undeniable that the materiality of the sound perceived and produced defines the musical content. However, an ontology of musical knowledge based only on the construction of percepts fails to provide a full explanation of the status of reality in music cognition. In this paper, the concept of cognitive reality is interrogated at the intersection between the musicological and psychological fields. An imaginative, embodied and dynamic dimension of music cognition is posited. The way the concepts of musical analysis are positively linked to the use of correspondences between different domains of experience is explained with the aim of enhancing the extent of the cognitive reality in musical experience.

Author Biography

Isabel Cecilia Martínez, Laboratorio para el Estudio de la Experiencia Musical. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad Nacional de La Plata

es Doctora en Psicología de la Música por Roehampton Surrey University (Reino Unido). Es Profesora Titular Ordinaria de Metodología de las Asignaturas Profesionales y Audioperceptiva 1-2 en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Es directora del Laboratorio para el Estudio de la Experiencia Musical (LEEM-FBA-UNLP). Dirige un equipo de investigadores en el campo de la Cognición Musical Corporeizada. Es socia fundadora y primer presidente de SACCoM (Sociedad Argentina para las Ciencias Cognitivas de la Música). Su investigación vincula aspectos de la cognición musical corporeizada con las implicancias epistemológicas para la teoría y la práctica de la formación musical. Ha publicado y difundido su investigación en el ámbito nacional e internacional. Ha recibido en el año 2017 el premio a la Labor Científica e Investigativa de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

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Published

2019-03-12

Issue

No. 19 (2018): Dosier: Musicology and Musical Cognition in Latin America

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