The Synaptic Scholars invite you to an informal Discussion - Music Cognition: How do we understand music?

November 10, 2008
Tufts University Campus | Stratton Hall Lounge | 7:30pm

Music Cognition: How do we understand music?

Why does music exist at all? Why do we have a capacity for music? In what ways are humans "engineered" for music, to both make and appreciate it? With Provost Jamshed Bharucha - Provost and Senior Vice President Prof. Ray Jackendoff - Philosophy Department, Co-author of “A Generative Theory of Tonal Music” Prof. David Locke - Tufts Associate Professor of Music, Ethnomusicologist

Monday,
 November
 10th,
7:30
pm
 Stratton 
Hall 
Lounge