Introduction
- notion of listening network ;
- recognizable/unrecognizable objects ;
- importance of object analysis speed;
- relationship between the richness of musical language and the complexity of the object.
The "realized" musical object
- structural perception ;
- real perception.
Main results of psychoacoustic research
- thresholds, masking, etc. ;
- perception of pitch and rhythm;
- objective data in timbre perception.
Mechanisms of object definition
- some results of research in cognitive psychology
- short- and long-term memory ;
- structuring perception and memory;
- schemes".
- the notion of variation
- perceived variation ;
- hidden variation.
Object variation and its perception
- minsky's theory of memory (K-Lines, Frames, etc.) ;
- relationship between Frames and the notion of theme and variation;
- stroppa's theory of "musical organisms";
- the notion of the envelope as an organizer of perception.