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Beethoven's anvil : music in mind and culture / William L. Benzon.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3830 .B35 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benzon, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Psychological aspects.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- Why does the brain create music? In "Beethoven's Anvil", cognitive scientist and jazz musician Benzon finds the key to music's function in the very complexity of musical experience.
- Contents:
- Preface: Speculative Engineering xi
- 1 Some Varieties of Musical Experience 1
- Part I Collective Dynamics
- 2 Music and Coupling 23
- 3 Fireflies: Dynamics and Brain States 47
- 4 Musical Consciousness and Pleasure 69
- Part II Music and the Mind
- 5 Blues in the Night: Emotion in Music 93
- 6 Rhythm Methods: Patterns of Construction 116
- 7 Bright Moments 143
- Part III The Evolution of Musical Culture
- 8 The Protohuman Rhythm Band 169
- 9 Musicking the World 195
- 10 Music and Civilization 222
- 11 Through Jazz and Beyond 250.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465015433
- OCLC:
- 47120390
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