Music, Mind, and Meaning
Marvin Minsky · Computer Music Journal · 1981
Speculating about cognitive aspects of listening to music, this essay discusses: how metric regularity and thematic repetition might involve representation frames and memory structures, how the result of listening might resemble space-models, how phrasing and expression might evoke innate responses and finally, why we like music — or rather, what is the nature of liking itself.