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Two fundamental classes of musical phenomena can be distinguished, I believe, on the basis of the contrasting cognitive responses to them on the part of informed listeners. I shall organize this survey of music descriptions in terms of that distinction.
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Slawson, W. (1991). Structure and association in descriptions of music, with a coda on linguistic analogies. In: Sundberg, J., Nord, L., Carlson, R. (eds) Music, Language, Speech and Brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12670-5_2
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