Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture

by William L. Benzon

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Why does the brain create music? In Beethoven's Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon finds the key to music's function in the very complexity of musical experience. Music demands that our symbol-processing capacities, motor skills, emotional and communicative skills all work in close coordination-not only within our own heads but with the heads (and bodies) of others. Music is at once deeply personal and highly social, highly...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0465015441

ISBN13:9780465015443

Release Date:October 2002

Publisher:Basic Books

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Appreciation Arts, Music & Photography Education & Reference History & Criticism Music Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Theory, Composition & Performance

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