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Music Semantics

Music Semantics is the systematic study of meaning in music, distinguishing itself from related inquiries by focusing on how musical structures, processes, and contexts convey semantic content through signification, reference, and interpretation within culturally situated frameworks.

652

Publications

31.3K

Citations

1.2K

Authors

403

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

113

Variants

Musical Semantics

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Children

Publications

652

Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study

Aniruddh D. Patel, Edward Gibson, Jennifer Ratner et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 1998 · 711 citations

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Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing

Stefan Koelsch, Elisabeth Kasper, Daniela Sammler et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2004 · 563 citations · Full text

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Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective

Francesco d’Errico, Christopher S. Henshilwood, Graeme Lawson et al. · Journal of World Prehistory · 2003 · 505 citations

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Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012

Fabien Gouyon, Perfecto Herrera, Luís Gustavo Martins et al. · 2012 · 447 citations

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Music and Language

Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox · Annual Review of Anthropology · 1994 · 370 citations

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Authors

1.2K

  1. XS
    Xavier Serra

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

    20 publications · 835 citations

    15

    h-index

  2. PH
    Perfecto Herrera

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

    18 publications · 1K citations

    14

    h-index

  3. MS
    M. Sandler

    Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, United Kingdom

    18 publications · 996 citations

    14

    h-index

  4. GL
    Gert Lanckriet

    University of California San Diego, United States

    12 publications · 626 citations

    12

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  5. YY
    Yi‐Hsuan Yang

    Academia Sinica, Taiwan

    10 publications · 410 citations

    10

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Institutions

403

  1. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Barcelona, Spain

    22 h-index

    104 publications

    4.8K citations

  2. Queen Mary University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    46 publications

    1.8K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    13 h-index

    35 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    13 h-index

    32 publications

    1.6K citations

  5. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    10 h-index

    24 publications

    4.5K citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

    Leipzig, Germany

    10 h-index

    24 publications

    4.9K citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    280 citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    1.6K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

    21 publications · 922 citations

    16

    h-index

  2. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

    Repository · 20 publications · 1K citations

    16

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 15 publications · 1.2K citations

    15

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  4. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal

    18 publications · 1.1K citations

    15

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  5. Notes

    14 publications · 776 citations

    13

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