Janet Bourne is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Bates College in Maine, USA. She has presented at multiple regional, national, and international conferences on music theory and music cognition including the Society for Music Theory and International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Her publications include two articles in Music Theory Online and a forthcoming chapter on music theory pedagogy and cognition in the Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory. She is interested in the cognition behind listening and musical communication, musical analogy and categorization, schema theory, topic theory, connection between music and language, and musical humor and irony.
Contact : jebourne1@gmail.com
Séance - Constructing Meaning, Constructing Identity: Classical Topics and Schemata, Musorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition', and Brahem's Film Music 9.I.1 : The Schema-Topic Construction
