South Asia and Musical Cognition

Series dates:

Wednesdays, 5.00 - 6.30pm

Series venues:

Hovenden Room

Series Convenor:

Dr Jonathan Katz

*except 20 January: Wharton Room, All Souls College.

A programme of lectures given by invited speakers, exploring parallels between music and language, and aiming to make some progress in describing and analysing the processes of understanding and communicating musical invention, meaning and compositional structures.

Series Poster

Events in this series

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Gesture and meaning in North Indian classical music

20th January 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Foundations of musical meaning in the Indian tradition

27th January 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Analysing formulas in language and music

3rd February 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Recursion and grammatical structure in Indian music

10th February 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Hindustani classical music and Lerdahl and Jackendoff's generative theory of tonal music: a mutual regard

17th February 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Entrainment and interaction in Indian music

24th February 2016 5:00pm-5:30pm

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Playful encounters: music cognition in the moment

2nd March 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm

South Asia and Musical Cognition - Improvisation as devotion: musical creativity and temple worship in South India

9th March 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm