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  2. Aesthetics of music - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Cool (aesthetic) - Wikipedia

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    Coolness, or being cool, is the aesthetic quality of something (such as attitude, behavior, appearance, or style) being compatible with admirable social norms of society or a group of people. Because of the varied and changing interpretation of what is considered cool , as well as its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning.

  4. Philosophy of music - Wikipedia

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    In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization. In the eighteenth century, focus shifted to the experience of hearing music, and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment (plaisir and jouissance) of music.

  5. Taylor Swift's eras: What she was trying to say with each ...

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    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.

  6. List of culturally linked qualities of music - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of aesthetic principles of music.It enumerates the various qualities by which music is judged aesthetically. Blues, an African American musical genre and quality of music that reflects an emotionally genuine soul and expresses melancholy, loneliness and tragedy [1]

  7. Leonard B. Meyer - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...

  9. Formalism (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music theory and especially in the branch of study called the aesthetics of music, formalism is the concept that a composition's meaning is entirely determined by its form. [ dubious – discuss ]