Reflections On The Musical Mind

Author : Jay Schulkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400849031

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Reflections on the Musical Mind by Jay Schulkin Pdf

What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential. In Reflections on the Musical Mind, Jay Schulkin offers a social and behavioral neuroscientific explanation of why music matters. His aim is not to provide a grand, unifying theory. Instead, the book guides the reader through the relevant scientific evidence that links neuroscience, music, and meaning. Schulkin considers how music evolved in humans and birds, how music is experienced in relation to aesthetics and mathematics, the role of memory in musical expression, the role of music in child and social development, and the embodied experience of music through dance. He concludes with reflections on music and well-being. Reflections on the Musical Mind is a unique and valuable tour through the current research on the neuroscience of music.

Author : Jay Schulkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691157443

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Reflections on the Musical Mind by Jay Schulkin Pdf

What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential. In Reflections on the Musical Mind, Jay Schulkin offers a social and behavioral neuroscientific explanation of why music matters. His aim is not to provide a grand, unifying theory. Instead, the book guides the reader through the relevant scientific evidence that links neuroscience, music, and meaning. Schulkin considers how music evolved in humans and birds, how music is experienced in relation to aesthetics and mathematics, the role of memory in musical expression, the role of music in child and social development, and the embodied experience of music through dance. He concludes with reflections on music and well-being. Reflections on the Musical Mind is a unique and valuable tour through the current research on the neuroscience of music.

Author : Joseph Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009444822

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Reflections Upon Musical Art Considered in Its Wider Relations by Joseph Goddard Pdf

Author : Fred Lerdahl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520973251

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Composition and Cognition by Fred Lerdahl Pdf

In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation for his compositional style and how his intuitions as a composer have guided his cognitively oriented theories. At times personal and reflective, this book offers an overall picture of the musical mind that has implications for central issues in contemporary composition, including the recurrent gap between method and result, and the tension between cognitive constraints and utopian aesthetic views of musical progress. Lerdahl’s succinct volume provides invaluable insights for students and instructors, composers and music scholars, and anyone engaged with contemporary music.

Author : Jeanne Bamberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199589838

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Discovering the Musical Mind by Jeanne Bamberger Pdf

Following her distinguished earlier career as a concert pianist and later as a music theorist, Jeanne Bamberger conducted countless case studies analysing musical development and creativity within the classroom environment. 'Discovering the musical mind' draws together these classic studies, and offers the chance to revisit and reconsider some of the conclusions she drew at the time.

Author : Daniel Levitin
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0241987350

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This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin Pdf

Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life

Author : Bennett Reimer
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781607092377

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Seeking the Significance of Music Education by Bennett Reimer Pdf

Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled: -generating core values for the field of music education; -the core in larger societal and educational contexts; -what to teach and how to teach it effectively; -how we need to educate our teachers; -the role of research in our profession; and -how to improve our future status. Reimer precedes each essay with background reflections and his position, both professional and personal, on effectively addressing the issue at hand. The opening 'Letter to the Reader' presents a valuable overview based on his deeply grounded viewpoint. The entire music education profession will benefit from Reimer's perspective on past, present, and future concerns central to the functioning of music education in Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780444635525

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Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Evolution, the Musical Brain, Medical Conditions, and Therapies by Anonim Pdf

Did you ever ask whether music makes people smart, why a Parkinson patient's gait is improved with marching tunes, and whether Robert Schumann was suffering from schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease? This broad but comprehensive book deals with history and new discoveries about music and the brain. It provides a multi-disciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain plasticity, and the healing power of music in neurological and psychiatric disorders. In this context, the disorders the plagued famous musicians and how they affected both performance and composition are critically discussed, and music as medicine, as well as music as a potential health hazard are examined. Among the other topics covered are: how music fit into early conceptions of localization of function in the brain, the cultural roots of music in evolution, and the important roles played by music in societies and educational systems. Topic: Music is interesting to almost everybody Orientation: This book looks at music and the brain both historically and in the light of the latest research findings Comprehensiveness: This is the largest and most comprehensive volume on "music and neurology" ever written! Quality of authors: This volume is written by a unique group of real world experts representing a variety of fields, ranging from history of science and medicine to neurology and musicology

Author : Meki Nzewi,Odyke Nzewi
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781920051655

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A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts: Illuminations, reflections and explorations by Meki Nzewi,Odyke Nzewi Pdf

The 1st three volumes present material in a modular approach. Each volume presents progressively more advanced concepts in the categories: musical structure and form, factors of music appreciation, music instruments, music and society, research project, musical arts theatre, school songs technique, and performance. The 4th volume is a collection of essays. The 5th volume contains printed music.

Author : Tom?s McAuley,Nanette Nielsen,Jerrold Levinson,Ariana Phillips-Hutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1151 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197546260

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The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy by Tom?s McAuley,Nanette Nielsen,Jerrold Levinson,Ariana Phillips-Hutton Pdf

Whether regarded as a perplexing object, a morally captivating force, an ineffable entity beyond language, or an inescapably embodied human practice, music has captured philosophically inclined minds since time immemorial. In turn, musicians of all stripes have called on philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the worlds that sustain it. In this Handbook, contributors build on this legacy to conceptualize the rich interactions of Western music and philosophy as a series of meeting points between two vital spheres of human activity. They draw together key debates at the intersection of music studies and philosophy, offering a field-defining overview while also forging new paths. Chapters cover a wide range of musics and philosophies, including concert, popular, jazz, and electronic musics, and both analytic and continental philosophy.

Author : Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674576063

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The Mind Behind the Musical Ear by Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger Pdf

Bamberger focuses on the earliest stages in the development of musical cognition. Beginning with children's invention of original rhythm notations, she follows eight-year-old Jeff as he reconstructs and invents descriptions of simple melodies.

Author : David J Elliot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195350142

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Praxial Music Education : Reflections and Dialogues by David J Elliot Pdf

Praxial Music Education is a collection of essays by nineteen internationally recognized scholars in music education. Each essay offers critical reflections on a key topic in contemporary music education. The starting point of each essay, and the unifying thread of this collection, is the "praxial" philosophy of music education explained in Elliott's Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education (OUP, 1995). This philosophy argues for a socially and artistically grounded concept of music and music education, challenging the field's traditional "absolutist" foundations. Praxial Music Education is both a critical companion to Music Matters, and an independent text on contemporary issues in music education. Among the themes discussed are multicultural music education, the nature of musical understanding, early childhood music education, the nature and teaching of music listening, music curriculum development, and musical creativity. Praxial music education is a living theory. This unique collection will not only enrich discussions that already use Music Matters as their core, but will globalize current discussions and applications of the praxial philosophy and emphasize the positive and practical values of collaborative efforts in music education.

Author : Zachary Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190949244

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Thinking in and about Music by Zachary Bernstein Pdf

Author : Leo Treitler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253223166

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Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations by Leo Treitler Pdf

How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture in the presentation and representation of music. Treitler engages a wide variety of historical sources to discuss works from medieval plainchant to Berg's opera Lulu and a range of music in between.

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317546603

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Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur by Raymond Tallis Pdf

These essays from one of our most stimulating thinkers showcase Tallis's infectious fascination, indeed intoxication, with the infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition. In the title essay, we join Tallis on a stroll around his local park - and the intricate passages of his own consciousness - as he uses the motif of the walk, the amble, to occasion a series of meditations on the freedoms that only human beings possess. In subsequent essays, the flaneur thinks about his brain, his relationship to the rest of the animal kingdom, his profession of medicine and about the physical world and the claims of physical science to have rendered philosophical reflection obsolete. Taken together the essays continue Tallis's mission to elaborate a vision of humanity that rejects religious myths while not succumbing to scientism or any other form of naturalism. Written with the author's customary intellectual energy and vigour these essays provoke, move and challenge us to think differently about who we are and our place in the material world.