This book provides an overview of the communicative processes that encompass the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena c

"Bringing together leading researchers from a variety of academic and applied backgrounds, this book examines how music can be used to communicate, as well as t

Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory,

"Cognitive Bases of Musical Communication" systematically extends and deepens our knowledge of the mechanisms by which music is communicated among human beings.

This work argues against the widely held view that to understand music the listeners must hear musical works and passages as expressive of emotions. The argumen