Musical Imagery and the Canon in Sighard Gille’s Gewandhaus Mural Gesang vom Leben

Monatshefte ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-506
Author(s):  
Juliane Schicker
Keyword(s):  
Musical Imagery

Empirical Musical Imagery beyond the “Mind’s Ear”

2019 ◽  
pp. 444-463
Author(s):  
Freya Bailes
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Musical Imagery ◽  
Motor Processing ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
Auditory Experience ◽  
Kinesthetic Imagery

Freya Bailes deals with the topic of musical imagery, and she uses embodied cognition as a framework to argue that musical imagery is a multimodal experience. Existing empirical studies of musical imagery are reviewed and Bailes points to future directions for the study of musical imagery as an embodied-cognition phenomenon. Arguing that musical imagery can never be fully disembodied, Bailes moves beyond the idea of auditory imagery as merely a simulation of auditory experience by “the mind’s ear.” Instead, she outlines how imagining sounds involves kinesthetic imagery and she concludes that sound and music are always connected to sensory motor processing.

Inducing involuntary musical imagery: An experimental study

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lassi A. Liikkanen
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Musical Imagery

scholarly journals Mental Control of Musical Imagery: Comparing Tonal and Song Stimuli

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Cotter ◽  
Paul Silvia
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Stimulus Type ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Mental Control ◽  
Musical Imagery ◽  
Musical Expertise ◽  
Management Ability

Mental control of musical imagery is a complex but understudied process that consists of two components: initiation—whether the musical imagery experience began voluntarily or involuntarily—and management—whether instances of control occur after the experience has begun (e.g., changing the song). The present research examined these two components using 11 lab tasks measuring both initiation and management abilities in a sample of 203 undergraduate students. The tasks varied in stimuli composition: 7 tasks used tones and tonal sequences frequently used as stimuli in auditory imagery research, and 4 tasks used stimuli resembling the contents of everyday musical imagery (i.e., song excerpts). Initiation and management abilities were closely related, and people with greater musical expertise showed a smaller difference between initiation and management ability. Similarly, performance on tasks using tones or tonal sequences and tasks using song stimuli were closely related, and people didn’t differ in performance as a function of stimulus type. The present research demonstrates that people’s ability to initiate and to manage musical imagery are strongly linked and that people are equally good at controlling relatively simple musical imagery and imagery of well-known songs.

Belles lettres and Painting

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoaneta Ancheva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Musical Imagery ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Artistic Styles ◽  
Belles Lettres

There are topics in art that always sound contemporary, so we often come back to them. One of them is Belles lettres and Painting. There are two perhaps even three different theses for this problem. The first is that fiction and fine arts are too far apart from each other as a type of art. The second thesis is that the arts have not only their major and significant differences, but also their undeniable similarities. Such is the perception of the French and German romantics. According to them, in the different historical eras, aesthetic trends and directions (genres) form close artistic styles, criteria and tastes as well as similar literary, plastic and musical imagery. And the third thesis is neutral. It seeks to harmonize the first two – different in expressive means, but similar in ideological and emotional impact respectively to the reader, viewer or listener.

Involuntary Musical Imagery Questionnaire

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Müllensiefen ◽  
Joshua Fry ◽  
Rhiannon Jones ◽  
Sagar Jilka ◽  
Lauren Stewart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Musical Imagery

scholarly journals Involuntary musical imagery as a component of ordinary music cognition: A review of empirical evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1195-1217
Author(s):  
Lassi A. Liikkanen ◽  
Kelly Jakubowski
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Music Cognition ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Musical Imagery ◽  
Mental Experience ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Extensive Literature Search

AbstractInvoluntary musical imagery (INMI) refers to a conscious mental experience of music that occurs without deliberate efforts to initiate or sustain it. This experience often consists of the repetition of a short fragment of a melody, colloquially called an “earworm.” Here, we present the first comprehensive, qualitative review of published empirical research on INMI to date. We performed an extensive literature search and discovered, in total, 47 studies from 33 peer-reviewed articles that met the inclusion criteria for the review. In analyzing the content of these studies, we identified four major research themes, which concern the phenomenology, dynamics, individual differences, and musical features of INMI. The findings answer many questions of scientific interest—for instance, what is typical in terms of INMI frequency, duration, and content; which factors influence INMI onset; and whether demographic and personality factors can explain individual differences in susceptibility and responses to INMI. This review showcases INMI as a well-established phenomenon in light of a substantial body of empirical studies that have accumulated consistent results. Although the populations under study show an unfavorable bias towards Western, educated participants, the evidence depicts INMI as a universal psychological phenomenon, the possible function of which we do not yet fully understand. The concluding section introduces several suggestions for future research to expand on the topic.

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