Musical Imagery

An edited collection of papers which explore a large number of topics related to musical imagery. Musical imagery can be defined as our mental capacity for imagining sound in the absence of a directly-audible sound source, meaning that we can recall and re-experience or even invent new musical sound through our inner ear. The first part of the volume is focused on theoretical issues such as the history, epistemology, neurological bases, and cognitive models of musical imagery. The second part presents various applications of musical imagery in performance and composition, and provides the reader with a broad overview of the many musical activities which are concerned with musical imagery.;Musical imagery is a truly interdisciplinary subject, and it is the belief of the editors that a plurality of approaches, ranging from the introspective and philosophical to the experimental and computational, is the most fruitful strategy for exploring the subject of musical imagery.

Rolf Inge Godøy

Part 01 Part I Theoretical Perspectives: Overview; Part 01 Rolf Inge Godøy and Harald Jørgensen; Section 01 1 Perspectives and Challenges of Musical Imagery; Section 01 Albrecht Schneider and Rolf Inge Godøy; Section 02 2 Neuropsychological Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Image Formation in Music; Section 02 Petr Janata; Section 03 3 Musical Imagery and Working Memory; Section 03 Virpi Kalakoski; Section 04 4 Modeling Musical Imagery in a Framework of Perceptually Constrained Spatio-Temporal Representations; Section 04 Marc Leman; Section 05 5 Mental Images of Musical Scales: A Cross-cultural ERP Study; Section 05 Christiane Neuhaus; Section 06 6 Complex Inharmonic Sounds, Perceptual Ambiguity, and Musical Imagery; Section 06 Albrecht Schneider; Section 07 7 Musical Imagery between Sensory Processing and Ideomotor Simulation; Section 07 Mark Reybrouck; Section 08 8 Musical Imagery as Related to Schemata of Emotional Expression in Music and on the Prosodic Level of Speech; Section 05 Dalia Cohen and Edna Inbar; Section 09 9 Imaging Soundscapes: Identifying Cognitive Associations between Auditory and Visual Dimensions; Section 09 Kostas Giannakis and Matt Smith; Part 02 Part II Performance and Composition: Overview; Part 02 Rolf Inge Godøy and Harald Jørgensen; Section 10 10 Expressive Timing in the Mind's Ear; Section 10 Bruno H. Repp; Section 11 11 Control of Timbre by Musicians - A Preliminary Report; Section 11 Wolfgang Auhagen and Viktor Schoner; Section 12 12 Images of Form: An Example from Norwegian Hardingfiddle Music; Section 12 Tellef Kvifte; Section 13 13 Imagined Action, Excitation, and Resonance; Section 13 Rolf Inge Godøy; Section 14 14 The Keyboard as Basis for Imagery of Pitch Relations; Section 14 James M. Baker; Section 15 15 Composers and Imagery: Myths and Realities; Section 15 Rosemary Mountain; Section 16 16 The Musical Imagery of India; Section 16 Lewis Rowell; Name Index; Subject Index;