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Abstract
The presentations at the Symposium on Music and the Cognitive Sciences covered a vast array of approaches and aims from disciplines such as music composition, musicology, music theory, music analysis, experimental psychology, neuropsychology, mathematics, and computer science. These different approaches are briefly described. A plethora of fundamental concerns were raised across these disciplines. Those discussed in this chapter include the perception and representation of musical attributes, patterns, and forms, the mental organization of musical material and form, the development and learning of musical skills, and musical universals. A number of problems in the cross-disciplinary dialogue are also noted and discussed, with emphasis being placed on the problems that the basic assumptions of each discipline pose when considering what is relevant in other disciplines.