Cognitive Aspects of Musical Folklore
Cognitive Aspects of Musical Folklore

Summary/Abstract: The continuity of traditional music and the numerous studies in the direction ofethnomusicology are the first indications of the contemporary man’s attitude towardfolklore. As a syncretic process, the musical capacity of the traditional performer isbased on the multitude of his/her traditional manifestations such as the process ofvariation, creation and adaptation, improvisation, affective aspects, etc. The study oftraditional music results in the interdisciplinary blend between ethnomusicology andthe psychology of art. Because all the psychoacoustic and sociological processes ofcultivated music can be found in traditional music, this proves that man’s affectivenature, as well as social conditions are the main sources of the necessity for musicalexpression.The continuity of traditional music and the numerous studies in the direction of ethnomusicology are the first indications of the contemporary man’s attitude toward folklore. As a syncretic process, the musical capacity of the traditional performer is based on the multitude of his/her traditional manifestations such as the process of variation, creation and adaptation, improvisation, affective aspects, etc. The study of traditional music results in the interdisciplinary blend between ethnomusicology and the psychology of art. Because all the psychoacoustic and sociological processes of cultivated music can be found in traditional music, this proves that man’s affective nature, as well as social conditions are the main sources of the necessity for musical expression.This article entitled Cognitive Aspects of Musical Folklore proposes an approach to folklore from the perspective of musical cognition. As in other areas of knowledge, more and more rigor is required in explaining the phenomenology of musical folklore. Understanding the phenomenology of musical folklore consists of reducing one type of reality to another so that the nature of truth transpires even in the care that it is hiding, but in all cases, the same problem is that between the sensory and rational ratio.

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