ERIC Number: EJ740007
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Publication Date: 2005
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Response to Eva Alerby and Cecilia Perm, "Learning Music: Embodied Experience in the Life-World"
Fung, C. Victor
Philosophy of Music Education Review, v13 n2 p206-207 Fall 2005
At the onset of the essay by Alerby and Perm, musicality is described as emotional or cognitive phenomena. In this response, Fung questions what role a psychomotor phenomenon plays in musicality. Alerby and Perm describe "motor knowledge" in the context of Merleau-Ponty's "maximum grip." Does this mean that "motor knowledge" or "maximum grip" in music is outside the realm of musicality? Fung agrees that music learning takes place when experiences and knowledge are incorporated in the body, and that if the relationship between human and the world is indissoluble, then the question of music learning taking place inside or outside of the human being is untenable in this phenomenological inquiry.
Descriptors: Music Appreciation, Music Education, Phenomenology, Reader Response, Music Theory, Emotional Experience
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