In this episode, I chat with Dr. Cora Palfy (Washington and Jefferson College) about her musical upbringing as a singer, her time studying music theory and cognition at Northwestern, and her music theory pedagogy article on "the hidden curriculum." We also dive into her 2022 book Musical Agency and The Social Listener, which discusses music as an agent that acts upon the listener through narrative.

Join us for our next HMA book club meeting in May! Sign up at hermusicacademia.com/book-club to get all of the information about the next meeting!

Cora on Academia.edu

Musical Agency and The Social Listener

Robert Hatten's A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music

Arnie Cox's "Embodying Music: Principles of the Mimetic Hypothesis"

Hidden Brain podcast with Nicholas Epley

My episode on Suzanne Cusick

My episode with Vivian Luong

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