**CANCELED - Professor Lawrence M. Zbikowski**

ABSTRACT: Depictions of natural events through musical sound have long been remarked upon and, since the nineteenth century, routinely deprecated as instances of facile mimesis. In this paper Professor Lawrence Zbikowski explores the cognitive processes behind humans’ ability to understand musical depiction, chief among which is analogy. Professor Zbikowski argues that analogical reference can be used as the basis for a cognitive grammar of music, a strategy that allows him to draw a clear distinction between musical and linguistic grammar and that helps to explain the immediacy of musical communication.

LAWRENCE M. ZBIKOWSKI is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses in music theory and analysis. He is the author of Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (Oxford, 2002), and served as co-chair and faculty for the 2009 Workshop on Music on the Mind at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, Mannes College of Music.

Part of the Music Scholars Lecture Series