Michelle Phillips & Matthew Sergeant 
Music and Time 
Psychology, Philosophy, Practice

How does music manifest through time and, simultaneously, how does time manifest through music?


For the experimental psychologist, the experience of time during music listening or performance is something that may be studied empirically. For philosophers, fundamental questions of time continue to be the subject of ongoing debate in philosophy: is time linear? What are past, present and future? What is duration and what makes a perceptual present, or moment? For the performer, musical time can exist as a subjective vehicle of expression. Although any of the three could be chosen as a starting point, the order presented in the text’s structure offers a journey from empiricism to application, via contemplation.


This volume deals with the complex relationship between music and time. It presents a staunchly interdisciplinary perspective defined by the terms Psychology, Philosophy and Practice. The text is divided into sections concerning ‘experience’, ‘enactment’ and ‘meaning’, as points of intersection between the three primary methodologies of the title. As such, this is a book for the scholar, the student of music, and the interested reader. For the scholar, it offers new interconnections and comparisons. For the student, its pluralistic approach presents the most comprehensive overview available to date regarding the topic. For the interested reader, the volume offers answers to questions which concern us as listeners and audiences at concerts, gigs, and festivals.

قائمة المحتويات

Introduction

Matthew Sergeant and Michelle Phillips


Part I. Experiences

1. Music Listening and the Perception of Time: The LEMI Model

Michelle Phillips

2. The Remembrance of Things to Be: An Approach to Memory, Repetition, and Cyclical Structures

Bryn Harrison

3. An Overview of the Psychology of Time Perception

Luke A. Jones

4. The Perceptual Present and the Philosophical Puzzle of Musical Experience

Abigail Connor and Joel Smith


Part II. Enactments

5. Ensemble Timing in String Quartets

Alan Wing, Maria Witek, Ryan Stables, and Adrian Bradbury

6. Midway Ambiguities: Disorientation and Interpretation in Long-Duration Music

Philip Thomas

7. Live Coding as a Theatre of Agency and a Factory of Time

Alejandro Franco Briones


Part III. Meanings

8. Comparing Temporal Fictions in Tonality and Triadic Post-Tonality: Chopin’s Fourth Ballade as a Link Between the Ages

Jason Noble

9. Nothing Really Changes’: Material Processes in and as Timein
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Lauren Redhead

10. Music, Time, and Society

Matthew Sergeant


Conclusion: Multiplicity, Fluidity, Fragility

Michelle Phillips and Matthew Sergeant

Bibliography

Index

عن المؤلف

MATTHEW SERGEANT is a composer and researcher and Reader in Music at Bath Spa University.