Phenomenological mechanics is a novel discipline which examines phenomenological experience, and in particular the phenomenological experience of time and motion, in terms of concepts from the mechanics branch of physics.

Inherent within the concept of phenomenological mechanics is the proposition that the subjective experience of time and motion accords with, and may be analogously described in terms of, selected laws from physics.

This dissertation firstly introduces the novel discipline of phenomenological mechanics as a broad study in its own right, and secondly provides an example of how the concepts of phenomenological mechanics may be applied in examining and characterising the experience of directional motion in music.