Musical Hearing

• Main Author: Alberto Leongomez Herrera
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional 2010-02-01
• Series: Pensamiento Palabra y Obra
• Subjects: Escucha; estructura; significación; signo musical.
• Online Access: http://revistas.pedagogica.edu.co/index.php/revistafba/article/view/303

Once the musical hearing is acknowledged as a complex act involving the psychological functions of coding and decoding a chain of significance, it proves necessary to establish which these functions are, as well as how they provide a basis for complex semantic structures as music and language. Then, some questions arrive, such as how signification is established through music, and which the true minimal semantic unit of music might be. So, in this paper, the author renders a proposal articulating his particular viewpoint with some of the main items dealt with during the course of his participation in the research project “Listening: to rescue an oblivion”, carried on by the research group Auscultare, from the Faculty of Arts, under the coordination of professor Karol Bermúdez.