Music and the World It Represents: A Psychological and Aesthetic Study of the Relationship Between Musical Sounds and Their Representational Objects

Author: Zhou Haihong
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This study takes synesthetic relationships as a breakthrough point, using empirical methods in psychology to prove six types of synesthetic corresponding relationships related to musical auditory perception: synesthesia related to pitch, synesthesia related to loudness, synesthesia related to temporal anticipation, synesthesia related to rate of change over time, synesthesia related to tension, and synesthesia related to novelty experience. Based on the foundation of synesthetic corresponding relationships, this book also examines the process of the emergence of musical expressive objects from both the perspectives of creation and appreciation, addressing the questions "How do expressive objects enter music, and how do they exit music to reach the listeners?" It further points out that the "multiplicity" and "uncertainty" of musical understanding are inevitable, while the commonality of understanding is conditional. This study takes synesthetic relationships as a breakthrough point, using psychological empirical methods to prove six types of synesthetic corresponding relationships related to musical auditory perception: synesthesia related to pitch,