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On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
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Description for On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind
Hardcover. On Repeat offers an in-depth inquiry into music's repetitive nature. Drawing on a diverse array of fields, it sheds light on a range of issues from repetition's use as a compositional tool to its role in characterizing our behavior as listeners, and considers related implications for repetition in language, learning, and communication. Num Pages: 224 pages, 36 figures. BIC Classification: AVA; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
What 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 ... Read more
What 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199990825
SKU
V9780199990825
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About Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis directs the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas. Her research uses theoretical, behavioral, and neuroimaging methodologies to investigate the dynamic, moment-to-moment experience of listeners without special musical training. She was also trained as a concert pianist.
Reviews for On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind
Marguliss is a wide-ranging study that engages with musical repetition in both its production and reception through experimental studies that she and others have conducted, through reflections on the cognitive capacities of humans (including the neurophysiological substrates of such capacities), and through a consideration of some of the roles music plays in cultural and social interactions
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