Psychology as the Science of Behavior – A brief historical overview
Music as Communication (Kendall & Carterette, 1996)
Frames of Reference…coding among frames, implicit and explicit knowledge
Basic Musical Elements
Pitch Perception/Circularity..Psychological nature of Scales and Modes..Major vs. Minor
Time Perception/meter/beat/rhythm
Various musical examples
Goldsmith: Capricorn One
Melody as the cognition of pitch/time strata (Monahan, Kendall, & Carterette, 1986)
Timbre and Instrumentation
Music and Cognitive Semiotics
Leonard Meyer, Charles Peirce, and the reformulation by Kendall (2005).
Referentialism, Associationism, Iconism, Embodied Meaning (Expressionism),
Syntax.
Associative Meanings in Film Music
Signature Intervals
John Williams and the Perfect Fifth
E.T.
Star Wars
Jurassic Park
R. Strauss, 2001
Copland-Rodeo
Blazing Saddles
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Magnificent Seven (Bernstein)
How the West was Won
Major vs. Minor
Casablanca
2001 A Space Odyssey
Instrumentation
Theremin
Spellbound
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Mars Attacks
The Red Shoes
Saxophone
Laura
Street Car Named Desire
West Side Story
‘Ethnic’: Banjo/Guitar - Lilies of the Field
Koto: Tora Tora Tora
Percussion: The King and I (Ballet Sequence)
Dijeridou: Right Stuff
Human Voice:
Glory
Little Mermaid
The Phantom Menace
Mars Attacks
Iconic Meanings
Physiognomic Perceptions
Iconic Archetypes (Kendall, 2000): Ramp, Arch, etc.
Cartoon from ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’
By a Waterfall from ‘Footlight Parade’
Close Encounters
E. T. (Bicycle Scene)
Wizard of Oz
Fantasia
Syntactical Structures
West Side Story
Paul Wyle (Olympics)
Les Noces (Filmed Version)
Red Shoes
How Local and Global Features interact in Structural Relationship
Leitmotif and Idee Fixe:
Ben Hur
Star Wars
Gone with the Wind
The Great Escape
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Monothematic
Laura
Lilies of the Field
Bithematic
Spellbound
Theme and Variation
Laura
Casablanca
DTPOT
Casablanca
Footlight Parade (Shanghai Lil sequence)
Interactions of Hollywood with Other Domains
El Norte
Kundun
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Last Samurai
The 5th Element
The Matrix
Perception of the Composers Intent
Lipscomb and Kendall (1996)
Star Trek IV
2001 a Space Odyssey (Alex North Original vs. Kubrik’s selection)
Putting It All Together:
Spellbound
Psycho
The Little Mermaid
Alexander Nevsky and Star Trek II
Glory
Das Boot
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Pi
Signs
The Matrix
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