Cognitive sciences and historical sciences in music : Ways towards conciliation

Philippe Vendrix (1)

1 CESR - Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance UMR 7323

The history of the concept of musical representation is relevant to musicological and cognitive research. Descartes presented the first system explaining mental musical representations, and Mersenne also concerned himself with cognitive phenomena

Mots clés: musicology; cognitive sciences; cognition; musical representation; René Descartes; Marin Mersenne

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Philippe Vendrix. Cognitive sciences and historical sciences in music : Ways towards conciliation. Perception and cognition of music, Psychology Press, pp.69-80, 1997. ⟨halshs-00265891⟩