The neuroscience of Bach's music : perception, action, and cognition effects on the brain / Eric Altschuler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altschuler, Eric Lewin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Neurosciences and the arts.

Physical Description:

xi, 357 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map, music (some color), facsimiles ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2024]

Contents:

part 1. Prelude. Introduction

Background and overview of Johann Sebastian Bach

Basics of the brain and perception

Case study : A (not so) simple invention by Bach

upside down but very, very rarely backwards.

part 2. Playing Bach and the brain

action. Playing Bach's suites for solo cello and experiencing one's actions without perception and clocking Libet's "mind time"

Neural performance, action requirements, and challenges of playing Bach's Concerto for Two Violins

a study of synchronization and perceptual experience

Case study : Organ, violin or guitar?

Incorporating the cello part with two solo violas Bach's in Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

challenges in sychronization and listener experience

More than three

perceptual, action, and cognitive challenges for performers and listeners

Case study : A brainy Bach Encore for Handel

Case study : What is a fugue?

Virtuoso of Bach's composing and performance expectations.

part 3. Listening to Bach

perception of musical space and landscape. An introduction to the neuroscience of "affekt"

music, emotions, and the brain's limbic system

"Affekt" related to tempos and effects

Bach's composition and emotional playing

Case study : The affekt of effects in a Bach Cantata

The algebra and neuroscience of Bach's transcriptions for various instruments and cognitive effects

Case studies : (Can you hear) What's in a name?

part 4. Bach and the exploration of the tonal system and beyond

cognition. Parallel fifths and the cognitive-perceptual system

Sequential enharmonic notes across instruments in Bach's compositions

Case study : "Wrong notes" in Bach

Bach's 12-tone row, cognition, and musical perception

Case study : A whole tone scale in Bach

Modal traces and the cognitive-perceptual system

Present and future neuroimaging studies of Bach.

part 5. Mathematical Bach. Topology in Bach I

The brain's analysis of Bach's match to a "Möbius strip" structure

Topology in Bach II

A musical torus and the brain's ability to hear topological structures

Unbroken and broken symmetry in Bach's compositions.

part 6. Conclusion. Bach and the brain : action, perception, and cognition

summary, conclusion, fresh beginnings and future studies.

Notes:

"This book has a companion website hosting complementary materials. Visit this URL to access it: https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-companion/9780443135194 "--Page 3.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0443135193

9780443135194

OCLC:

1394113798