{"id":5727,"date":"2014-02-03T05:03:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T09:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2014-02-03T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T14:21:43","slug":"21m-269-introduction-to-music-cognition-studies-western-music-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/02\/03\/21m-269-introduction-to-music-cognition-studies-western-music-history\/","title":{"rendered":"21M.269  Introduction to Music Cognition (Studies: Western Music History)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong>\u00a0Martin Rohrmeier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lecture<\/strong>:\u00a0 MW2-3.30\u00a0 (4-152)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the past decade the field of music cognition witnessed a substantial growth and has become a major interdisciplinary research area bridging musicology and the cognitive sciences. This course focuses on a number of selected topics that featured prominently in recent and ongoing cognitive debates. The class will cover an introduction of the history of music cognition, cognitive research in music perception, processing, learning and representation. It further emphasizes the relationship between music theory, music psychology and computational models of music. Finally, recent debates concerning the cognitive overlap between music and language as well as the role of music in human evolution will be covered.<\/p>\n<p>This course is intended for undergraduate and graduate students with musical experience.<\/p>\n<p>Prerequisites:<br clear='none'\/>\nBasic experience in instrumental playing and score reading<br clear='none'\/>\nBasic knowledge of music theory and harmony<br clear='none'\/>\nFoundations of scientific and psychological research methods<br clear='none'\/>\n(optional) background in computer science for computational term projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor:\u00a0Martin Rohrmeier Lecture:\u00a0 MW2-3.30\u00a0 (4-152) Information: During the past decade the field of music cognition witnessed a substantial growth and has become a major interdisciplinary research area bridging musicology and the cognitive sciences. This course focuses on a number of selected topics that featured prominently in recent and ongoing cognitive debates. The class will cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5750,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}