Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

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Appendix


 2.04

 Experimental

 listening
 Webern

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8th listening: Listen for subdivisions foc

Four sections:
0’00-0’07
0’08-0’12
0’13-0’23
0’23-0’30

New questions: Why are the sections heard as sections?
What is going on in the ticking background?

9th listening: Open listening open

Beautiful, emotive music. The agitated section is important, cannot be eliminated

10th listening: Question: What characterizes the different sound qualities? foc

Coherent versus solitary
Deep versus high
Thuds, excited sounds

11th and 12th listening: open listenings open

New task: Let the melody slide into the background

13th listening : Question: What can you hear apart from the melody? open/foc

Tic-toc deep cello, vibrating high tremolo

14th listening: open listening open

New question: What similarities, what contrasts?

Appendix 2.03 Experimental listening Webern

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