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1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Contents |
Some varieties of musical experience -- Music and coupling -- Fireflies: dynamics and brain states -- Musical consciousness and pleasure -- Blues in the night: emotion in music -- Rhythm methods: patterns of construction -- Bright moments -- The protohuman rhythm band -- Musicking the world -- Music and civilization -- Through jazz and beyond |
| Summary |
Why does the brain create music? In Beethoven's Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon finds the key to music's function in the very complexity of musical experience. Music demands that our symbol-processing capacities, motor skills, emotional and communicative skills all work in close coordination-not only within our own heads but with the heads (and bodies) of others. Music is at once deeply personal and highly social, highly disciplined and open to emotional nuance and interpretation. It's precisely this coordination of different mental functions, Benzon argues, that underlies our deep need to create and participate in music. Music synchronizes the brain and has had a profound, and little-appreciated, influence on the shape of the mind and human cultures. This is a remarkable book: both daring and scholarly, it offers a sweeping vision of a vital, underappreciated force in our minds and culture.--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Music -- Psychological aspects
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Music -- Social aspects
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Musikpsychologie
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Muziek.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001037509 |
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