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BL
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878234
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| Main Entry
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Benzon, William.
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| Title & Author
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Beethoven's anvil : : music in mind and culture /\ William L. Benzon.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Basic Books,, ©2001.
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xvi, 336 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0465015433
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: 0465015441
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: 9780465015436
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: 9780465015443
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index.
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| Contents
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Some varieties of musical experience -- Music and coupling -- Fireflies: dynamics and brain states -- Musical consciousness and pleasure -- Blues in the night: emotion in music -- Rhythm methods: patterns of construction -- Bright moments -- The protohuman rhythm band -- Musicking the world -- Music and civilization -- Through jazz and beyond.
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| Abstract
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"Beethoven's Anvil 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. Benzon 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.
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Benzon 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." "Beethoven's Anvil is a book 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."--Jacket.
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Music-- Psychological aspects.
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Music-- Social aspects.
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Musique-- Aspect psychologique.
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Musique-- Aspect social.
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Music-- Psychological aspects.
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Music-- Social aspects.
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Musikpsychologie.
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Musikpsychologie.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Muziek.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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| Dewey Classification
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781/.11
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| LC Classification
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ML3830.B35 2001
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24.50bcl
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9,2ssgn
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LR 56600rvk
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LR 56650rvk
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