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Coolness, or being cool, is the aesthetic quality of something (such as attitude, behavior, appearance, or style) being generally admired by society and being compatible with social norms. Because of the varied and changing interpretation of what is considered cool , as well as its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning.
Aesthetics of music is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music. [1] In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization.
Meyer used this basis to form a theory about music, combining musical expectations in a specific cultural context with emotion and meaning elicited. [1] His work went on to influence theorists both in and outside music, as well as providing a basis for cognitive psychology research into music and our responses to it.
When Taylor Swift drops new music, fans know to look out for everything around the songs. The outfits, the fonts, the music videos and more also tell a story — the story of that album’s aesthetic.
Polyaesthetics or polyaesthetic education (from ancient Greek πολυ (poly) for much and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis) for perception) is an art education concept that emerged in Hamburg in the course of the 68er-Bewegung in the 20th century.
Basic Concepts in Music Education is a landmark work published in the USA 1958 as the Fifty-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. In 1954, the Music Educators National Conference ( MENC ) had formed its Commission on Basic Concepts in an attempt to seek a more soundly-based philosophical foundation.
COOL Award, children's book choice award; Cool colors, a perceptual and psychological classification of colors; Cool pavement, road surface that uses additives to reflect solar radiation unlike conventional dark pavement
Leonard B. Meyer, in Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956), [1] distinguished "formalists" from what he called "expressionists": "...formalists would contend that the meaning of music lies in the perception and understanding of the musical relationships set forth in the work of art and that meaning in music is primarily intellectual, while the expressionist would argue that these same ...