ABSTRACT

An understanding of musical thinking is important in music education to achieve musical growth. Even with an agreement that artistic features are significant, musical thinking still means intellectual ability or cognitive ability, and the aspect of linguistic, logical thinking is more emphasized. The purpose of this study is to connect perception and recognition to the problem of musical thinking that has only been discussed in stage of cognition, in order to shed new light on the concept and range of musical thinking in a broader level. An effort has been made to tie musical perception with musical thinking via comprehension of the concepts of bottom-up and the top-down processing. A theoretical basis is also established for music teaching/learning based on a consideration of the thinking styles that influence the process of musical thinking.

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