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The science-music borderlands :reckoning with the past and imagining the future
Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways. Researchers using scientific methods and approaches to advance our understanding of music and musicality have not yet grappled with some of the perils that humanistic fields concentrating on music have long articulated. In this edited volume, established and e…
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- 9780262373043
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- 1 online resource (428 pages).
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Sound actions :conceptualizing musical instruments
"This is a theoretical music technology book, influenced by new research in embodied music cognition. The main focus is on musical instruments and how they shape our experiences of music"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372213
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Parody in the age of remix :mashup creativity vs. the takedown
"Drawing on interviews with mashup producers, close readings of the mashup music and videos, and a historically and aesthetically informed cultural studies approach, Br?vig demonstrates how mashup music embraces the essence of parody through its mashing and repurposing of sources, associations, and connotations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374125
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Sounding bodies :music and the making of biomedical science
"Sounding Bodies presents the ancient Greek connections between music and medicine, their reception leading to the "sonic turn" in the eighteenth century, new kinds of sonic intervention in psychic disorders and new biological applications of sound"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236770X
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A generative theory of tonal music
A search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science.The point of departure is a search for the grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Wes…
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- 9780262278164
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) :illustrations.
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Between the tracks :musicians on selected electronic music
"Between the Tracks will analyze works by composers and researchers who have been under-examined in standard electronic music history books"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262359510
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Sex sounds :vectors of difference in electronic music
"Music and sexuality seem to have been linked together since someone first beat out a rhythm on a drum. Making Sex Sound explores the intersection in the mid-20th century onward"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369958
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Musical bodies, musical minds :enactive cognitive science and the meaning of …
"An attempt to explain musical cognition from the perspective of embodied cognitive science. Emphasizes interactive sense-making with the environment rather than internal neural mechanisms"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262370336
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The evolving animal orchestra :in search of what makes us musical
A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species. Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species--but are we the only musical species Is our musical predisposition unique, like our linguistic ability In The Evolving Animal Orchestra ,…
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- 9780262351157
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- 1 online resource (160 pages).
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The mental life of modernism :why poetry, painting, and music changed at the …
An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Ind…
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- 9780262356947
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