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Awareness of time in general, and musical time specifically, resides as a construct
within cognitive processes, or consciousness, and it is the events within the context of
music that allow us to construct our experience of musical time. One could argue the
distinctions between cognition and consciousness. However, assuming time and space
are fundamental co-constituents of consciousness and our awareness of them resides in
our cognitive process, there is no need to argue this distinction for this discussion.
If we are not able to directly access time through hearing, but are acutely able to
construct musical time conceptually through events that we do hear, another question can
be asked: what is heard in the music that gives rise to the awareness of various forms of
musical time? What constitutes a potentially shared horizon of meaning? Musical
semiotics can illuminate how we construct meaningful experiences concerning our
awaring of musical time. As Reiner states:
Most musical works are made up of numerous sound events, and each
sound event of a musical work can be understood as a signifier associated
with a particular signified. Musical works can thus be described as sets of
signs. Furthermore, considering that the meaning of a sound event
depends on other sound events that occur before and after, or
simultaneously. It is possible to speak of a system of signs. Thus,
individual musical works can function as sign systems. In fact, to the
extent that there are similarities among sign systems of different musical
works, music as a whole can be regarded as system of signs.'818 Reiner, p. 16
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Gedosh, David. Augeries, for Flute, Clarinet, Percussion and Tape: Aesthetic Discussion and Theoretical Analysis, dissertation, May 2009; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9851/m1/15/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .