On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind Tecumseh Fitch, who has called it a "design feature" of music, to the composer Arnold Schoenberg who admitted that "intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition.On Repe." An
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| Title | : | On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (289 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199990824 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-09 |
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Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music TheoryWinner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAPWhat is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece?And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head?Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition is nearly as integral to music as the notes themselves. Its centrality has been acknowledged by everyone from evolutionary biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch, who has called it a "design feature" of music, to the composer Arnold Schoenberg who admitted that "intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition." And yet, stunningly little is actually understood about repetition and its role in music.On Repe
Editorial : One of the top 10 science and tech books for December, 2013 - The Guardian
A signal musical and intellectual achievement. - Music & Letters
"Most music repeats itself a lot-an awful lot, actually. In On Repeat, Elizabeth Margulis takes a firm grasp of this obvious fact and moves it out from under our musical noses, giving it the thoughtful consideration it deserves. With knowledge and illustrations ranging from neuroscience to music analysis, and leavened with her personal experiences as a listener and pianist, Margulis shows that music's repetitiveness, far from being a flaw or lapse, is essential for us to hear, remember, move, feel, and delight in music, especially the music we know and love the best."-Justin London, Professor of Music, Carleton College, and author of Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter"Cognitive music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis addresses one of the great puzzles about music: why d
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