In Search of New Ears
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The central question:
With training or effort, how might we experience
music differently?
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This is a creative question ... an aesthetic question
... a musical question
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This is also a psychological question:
The question is premised on the concept of
subjective experience.
The question assumes we have a way of
describing experience
and recognizing when experiences differ.
The question raises the issue of what
path
one follows, in moving from one experience of music to another.
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Cook is in error when he excludes music cognition
as part of the imaginative enterprise
of creating new ears.