Cue Abstraction and Global Temporal Structure: A Perceptual-Analytical Synthesis
Published online on July 08, 2026
Abstract
Musicae Scientiae, Ahead of Print.
Most branches of music theory and analysis (e.g., Formenlehre, semiotics, Schenkerian and motivic analysis) assume that global musical structures are perceptually salient. Empirical research, however, has cast doubt on the abilities of both untrained ...
Most branches of music theory and analysis (e.g., Formenlehre, semiotics, Schenkerian and motivic analysis) assume that global musical structures are perceptually salient. Empirical research, however, has cast doubt on the abilities of both untrained ...