Musicologists have been asking this question from a phenomenological angle for some time. It's quite interesting how listening and perception in the English lan

Musicologists have been asking this question from a phenomenological angle for some time. It's quite interesting how listening and perception in the English language have almost no distinction from each other. Our ears listen always, but our brain perceives is about as far as we get. In French musicology and music psychology, there is much more desperation between modes of listening and they all have their own definitions.