This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is as follows: how is it possible

This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how w

The play of concepts and conceptual structures typical of music theory is thus not something remote from our appreciation of music, but is instead basic to it."

In Western Civilization Mathematics and Music have a long and interesting history in common, with several interactions, traditionally associated with the name o