Music Theory and Musical Psychology: Quests and Discoveries

Elena M. Alkon

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In the sphere of integration of various disciplines and the development of interdisciplinary research music has held a special position as a phenomenon of culture and a sign system distinct for the special role of the emotional, continual-energetic and unconscious elements. The article examines the tendency of interaction between music theory and musical psychology connected with the conceptualization of the unconscious which has been existent for over a century. The author highlights the most important moments of this process, directed at forming the perception of musical thinking as a central category connecting music theory and music psychology. Observations are expressed about the character and the dynamics of the examined tendency in Russian and American musicology, about terminological conceptualization of the unconscious in musical thinking, and information is recounted about significant musicological projects connected in one way or another with this issue.

Keywords: methodology of musicology, interdisciplinary approach in musicology, music theory and musical psychology, musical thinking, terminological conceptualization, mode-acoustic field, mode archetype

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.56620/2782-3598.2023.2.068-078

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