Abstract

The article examines the sources and the present-day condition of musical cognitive science. It is noted that by means of musicology’s turn towards the cognitive scientific paradigm, the study of the forms of musical being is carried out on the basis of elaboration of informational torrents coming from the physical world, biological matter, society and culture. The cognitive research direction in musical scholarship is at the stage of active formation, but already at the present time brings music theory out onto a new scholarly level, touching upon the entire surrounding world. Musical cognitive science makes it possible to place new accents pointing to the perspectives of understanding the meaningbearing structure of interpretation its diverse connections with the cognizing subject, his intellect, experience and level of mental activity. From such positions musical cognitive science may be examined not only as a basis for contemporary science, but also as a means of integral knowledge about the art of music in the system of the world order. Keywords: cognitive theory, cognitive musicology, musical cognition, interpretation

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