Janet Bourne is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara and founder of the UC Santa Barbara Music Cognition Lab. Her research interests include analogy, metaphor and music, cognition behind listening, modes of listening, topic theory, schema theory, narrative and associations, music theory pedagogy and representations of gender and race in film music. She has publications in Music Theory Online, Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening, Music Analysis and Film: Studying the Score, Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory, Frontiers in Neuroscience, among others. She lives in Orcutt, CA with her husband and son.
* Introduction: Who's Listening?
* 1: Analogy and Listening
* 2: Listener Experience, Modes of Listening, and Conceptual Knowledge
* 2.1: Interlude: Creating Composite Listeners and Cast of Characters
* 3: Irony and Happy Endings in Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 95/iv
* Empirical Vignette #1: Experiment on Cinematic Listening and Op.
95/iv
* 4: A "Woman's Way of Listening" to Beethoven: Perceiving a Lullaby
Topic in Op. 90/II and Op. 101/I
* Empirical Vignette #2: Experiment on Hearing Orchestral March Topics
* 5: Beethoven's Darth Vader and Op. 26/iii
* Appendix I: Methods and Statistical Results for Empirical Vignette #1
* Appendix II: Methods and Statistical Results for Empirical Vignette
#2
* Appendix III: Cognitive Constraints in Structural Alignment
