A focus of attention model for meaningful listening

Clifford K. Madsen · John M. Geringer

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A person 's ability to focus attention seems important for most everyone. Teachers of all subjects and at every level of instruction are concerned with each student 's ability to focus attention and stay on task. Listening to music seems prerequisite to all other musical pursuits and focus of attention combined with developing a high level of aural discrimination seems to provide the basis for meaningful music listening. A continuing line of research indicates that focus of attention is perhaps the most important attribute of actively participating in meaningful music listening. Music teachers are especially concerned with this ability when having students attend carefully in order to discern important elements or attributes of music. Presumably, this knowledge also contributes to musical understanding and/or enjoyment as well as increasing ones aesthetic sensitivity. We propose a focus of attention model for meaningful listening that is designed to combine the emotional aspects of music listening with specific discrimination of sound events.

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