Thought Experiments in the History of Musical Imagery - Presentation by Alan Davison October 12, 2012

280 Ferguson Hall

Recent studies in brain function, human cognition and gesture have confirmed what poets and artists have known all along; that images of music can evoke within us a sense of the sonorous. This presentation considers how pictures of music making across time and societies can shed light on the relationship between music and images, and how an “inner” ear works alongside our eyes in our overall perceptual engagement.

Alan Davison is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of New England, Australia. He is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western art music, specializing in music and visual culture, performance practice, and music aesthetics, especially the iconography of Franz Liszt.

Organized by the Music and Sound Studies Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

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