musical perception

musical perception — noun the auditory perception of musical sounds • Hypernyms: ↑auditory perception, ↑sound perception • Hyponyms: ↑melody, ↑tonal pattern …   Useful english dictionary

Musical analysis — This article is about the process or academic discipline of music analysis. For the academic journal by that name, see Music Analysis (journal). Musical analysis is the attempt to answer the question how does this music work?. The method employed …   Wikipedia

musical composition — Introduction       the act of conceiving a piece of music, the art of creating music, or the finished product. These meanings are interdependent and presume a tradition in which musical works exist as repeatable entities. In this sense,… …   Universalium

Musical aptitude — (i.e. having a fine ear for music) is the ability to intuitively learn or appreciate music, and especially to distinguish off key and off pitch music. Music is ancient and one of the most special characteristics of humans[citation needed]. Some… …   Wikipedia

Musical ear syndrome — (MES) describes a condition seen in people who have hearing loss and subsequently develop auditory hallucinations. It is comparable to Charles Bonnet syndrome (visual hallucinations in visually impaired people)[1] and some have suggested this… …   Wikipedia

Musical — Musique Allégorie évoquant la musique et les instruments La musique est l art consistant à arranger et ordonner sons et silences au cours du temps : le rythme est le support de cette combinaison dans le temps, la hauteur celle de la… …   Wikipédia en Français

musical sound — Introduction       any tone with characteristics such as controlled pitch and timbre. The sounds are produced by instruments in which the periodic vibrations can be controlled by the performer.       That some sounds are intrinsically musical,… …   Universalium

Musical semantics — Music is one of the oldest, and most basic, socio cognitive domains of the human species. Primate vocalizations are mainly determined by music like features (such as pitch, amplitude and frequency modulations, timbre and rhythm), and it is… …   Wikipedia

Musical syntax — When analysing the regularities and structure of music as well as the processing of music in the brain, certain findings lead to the question, if music is based on a syntax which could be compared with linguistic syntax. To get closer to this… …   Wikipedia

musical form — Introduction       the structure of a musical composition. The term is regularly used in two senses: to denote a standard type, or genre, and to denote the procedures in a specific work. The nomenclature for the various musical formal types may… …   Universalium

Musical gesture — Tonic and dominant in C  Play (help …   Wikipedia