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245 10 a| Beethoven's anvil :b| music in mind and culture /c| William L. Benzon.;

300 a| xvi, 336 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index.;

505 0 a| Preface: Speculative engineering -- Some varieties of musical experience -- Part I: Collective dynamics. Music and coupling -- Fireflies: dynamics and brain states -- Musical consciousness and pleasure -- Part II: Music and the mind. Blues in the night: emotion in music -- Rhythm methods: patterns of construction -- Bright moments -- Part III: The evolution of musical culture. The protohuman rhythm band -- Musicking the world -- Music and civilization -- Through jazz and beyond.;

520 a| This book takes us inside modern and ancient performances and rituals to show how the musical linking of brains explains things we commonly (and not-so-commonly) experience. The author shows us a rehearsal where mysterious tones that no one is playing seem to emerge from the ceiling, but only when the musicians feel they are in a groove. Everyone present hears these tones--but are they an acoustic phenomenon or a mental one? He explores how Leonard Bernstein knew he'd given a good performance when, after it was over, he felt he hadn't just performed a piece but written it; and how performers as different as Earl "Fatha" Hines and Vladimir Horowitz felt they stopped being human onstage but became something like racehorses. The author uses remarkable insights from brain science and anthropology to investigate musical styles ranging from Gregorian chant to hip-hop; discovers a children's song in a Louis Armstrong solo and finds that it may date to before the Crusades; explains rock music's merging of African and European musical forms in evolutionary terms; and reveals the similarity between decision-making in a baboon troop and the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This book is about a profound influence shaping human minds and cultures. Both daring and impeccably scholarly, it offers a sweeping new vision of a vital, familiar and yet poorly understood force in our lives.;

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Beethoven's anvil : music in mind and culture / William L. Benzon.

Author/creator	Benzon, William
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Basic Books, ©2001.
Description	xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Music--Psychological aspects. Music--Social aspects.

Contents	Preface: Speculative engineering -- Some varieties of musical experience -- Part I: Collective dynamics. Music and coupling -- Fireflies: dynamics and brain states -- Musical consciousness and pleasure -- Part II: Music and the mind. Blues in the night: emotion in music -- Rhythm methods: patterns of construction -- Bright moments -- Part III: The evolution of musical culture. The protohuman rhythm band -- Musicking the world -- Music and civilization -- Through jazz and beyond.
Abstract	This book takes us inside modern and ancient performances and rituals to show how the musical linking of brains explains things we commonly (and not-so-commonly) experience. The author shows us a rehearsal where mysterious tones that no one is playing seem to emerge from the ceiling, but only when the musicians feel they are in a groove. Everyone present hears these tones--but are they an acoustic phenomenon or a mental one? He explores how Leonard Bernstein knew he'd given a good performance when, after it was over, he felt he hadn't just performed a piece but written it; and how performers as different as Earl "Fatha" Hines and Vladimir Horowitz felt they stopped being human onstage but became something like racehorses. The author uses remarkable insights from brain science and anthropology to investigate musical styles ranging from Gregorian chant to hip-hop; discovers a children's song in a Louis Armstrong solo and finds that it may date to before the Crusades; explains rock music's merging of African and European musical forms in evolutionary terms; and reveals the similarity between decision-making in a baboon troop and the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This book is about a profound influence shaping human minds and cultures. Both daring and impeccably scholarly, it offers a sweeping new vision of a vital, familiar and yet poorly understood force in our lives.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index.
LCCN	2001037509
ISBN	0465015433 (alk. paper)

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