Structure and Content as Determinants for Musical Interpretation

Allegory: Structure, Interpretation and Polysemy

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

Annotating Musical Theatre Plots on Narrative Structure and Emotional Content

Although theoretical models of the structure of narrative arising from systematic analysis of corpora are available for domains such as Russian folk tales, there are no such sources for the plot lines of musical theatre. The present paper reports an effort of knowledge elicitation for features that characterise the narrative structure of plot in the particular domain of musical theatre. The fol...

Prosodic Structure as a Parallel to Musical Structure

What structural properties do language and music share? Although early speculation identified a wide variety of possibilities, the literature has largely focused on the parallels between musical structure and syntactic structure. Here, we argue that parallels between musical structure and prosodic structure deserve more attention. We review the evidence for a link between musical and prosodic s...

Musical Expertise and Melodic Structure in Memory for Musical Notation

Musical Structure and Cognition

contributors, the style of writing and level of presentation are reasonably consistent hroughout. The authors of 12 chapters reside in England, with the U.S.A. and Canada being represented by one chapter each. This is an English handbook which is quite different in style and content from the handbooks which we have become accustomed to on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. This English handbook c...