Lecture | Lawrence Zbikowski | Music and the Language of Emotions

Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

Introduction by Laura Emmery, Emory University, Department of Music
Emory Music Department's McDowell Lecture Series with
Co-Sponsored by CMBC, The Hightower Fund, and the Program in Linguistics
presents:

Lawrence Zbikowski, Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago
"Music and the Language of Emotions"
His research focuses on the application of recent work in cognitive science to a range of problems confronted by music scholars, including the nature of musical grammar, the relationship between music and movement, text-music relations, and the structure of theories of music. He is the author of Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (2002) and Foundations of Musical Grammar (2017). He has recently contributed chapters to Music and Consciousness 2, Music-Dance: Sound and Motion in Contemporary Discourse, The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition, Music in Time: Phenomenology, Perception, Performance, and The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory. During 2010–11 he held a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and was also Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at McGill University.