Music as a Chariot
Music as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective whose primary proposition is that theatre is a type of music. Understanding how music enables the theatre experience helps to shape our entire approach to the performing arts. Beginning with a discussion on the origin and nature of time, the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Focal Press
2018.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630723906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why This Book?
- Introduction: An Ear-Opening Experience
- Old School Aesthetics
- When Sound Gets Divorced from Music
- Who Should Read This Book
- Overview of the Book
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Note
- Bibliography
- Part I The Nature of Time
- 2 Let There Be a Big Bang
- Introduction: If a Tree Falls in the Universe . . .
- The Nature of Light and Sound
- The Evolution of Hearing and Seeing
- The Evolution of the Brain Leads to the Ability to Express Emotions
- Eyes and Ears, Space and Time
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3 The Great Mystery of Time
- Introduction: Babbling in Babelsberg
- The Mammalian Invasion
- We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of . . .
- The Relativity of Time
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part II Music = Time Manipulated
- 4 What Is Music?
- Introduction: What's in a Name?
- Music Is Organized Sound
- Narrowing Our Definition of Music
- Music Is Visual as Well as Audible
- The Elements of Design
- Energy Characteristics
- Temporal Characteristics
- Spatial Characteristics
- Complex Elements that Combine Energy in Time and Space
- The Importance of These Elements of Music
- A Proposed Definition of Music
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 5 Primate Numbers
- Introduction: Who's on First?
- Music, Language and Theatre: The Really Early Years
- Bipedal Primates
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part III Song = Music + Idea
- 6 Campfire Songs: Rhythm and Entrainment
- Introduction: Welcome Homo
- One Giant Leap for Mankind
- Early Homo
- Homo erectus
- Running, Tempo, Pulse, Tactus and Entrainment
- Tempo, Pacing, Tactus, Entrainment and Theatre Composition.
- When Music Meets Mimesis
- Conclusion
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 7 Music and Language
- Introduction: "All Theatre Starts with a Script"
- Brain Gains
- Fantastic Voyage
- Conclusion: Song = Music + Idea
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 8 Consonance and Dissonance: The Evolution of Line
- Introduction: The Roots of Who We Become
- The Evolution of Line
- Consonance and Dissonance
- What Is Consonance and Dissonance?
- Subcortical Consonance and Dissonance Perception
- Cortical Consonance and Dissonance Perception
- Consonance and Dissonance in Theatre
- Line/Melody
- Harmony
- Conclusion: Consonance and Dissonance and Time
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part IV Theatre = Song + Mimesis
- 9 Ritual, Arousal, Reward, Ecstasy
- Introduction: From High Mass to Ecstasy
- The Development of Ritual, Shamanism, and Altered States of Consciousness
- Theatre = Song + Mimesis
- The Neuroscience of Arousal and Reward in the Altered States of Consciousness of Shamanism and Theatre
- Introduction: Dreams, Altered States of Consciousness and Theatre
- The Basic Neuroscience of Arousal
- The Effect of Music on Physiological Systems
- The Effect of Music on Psychological Systems
- Cognitive Models for Music in Theatre
- Robert Thayer's Model of Psychological Moods
- Berlyne's Theory of Arousal in Aesthetics and Psychobiology
- Conclusion: Experiments in Ecstasy
- Ten Questions, Part I
- Things to Share, Part I
- Ten Questions Part II
- Things to Share, Part II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 10 Music, Mimesis, Memory
- Introduction: Traveling Backward in Time
- The New Stone Age
- Memory
- Introduction
- Sensory Memory
- Long Auditory Store/Short Term Memory/Working Memory
- Long-Term Memory.
- Creating and Retrieving Long-Term Memories
- Implicit Memory
- Explicit Episodic Memory
- Involuntary Explicit Episodic Memory
- Autobiographical Memory
- Conclusion: The Origins of Theatre and the Problems of the Oral Tradition
- Ten Questions, Part I
- Things to Share, Part I
- Ten Questions, Part II
- Things to Share, Part II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 11 The Bronze Age and the Invention of Writing
- Introduction: Theatre Becomes Drama
- The Bronze Age
- The Emergence of Written Language
- The Transition from Oral Tradition to Recorded History
- Conclusion: Lost in Translation?
- Ten Questions
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 12 Conclusion: Evolution and Greek Theatre
- Introduction: A Case Study
- The Origins of Greek Music: Music = Time Manipulated
- The Development of Greek Song: Song = Music + Idea
- Music as Math Made Audible: The Greeks Revisit Consonance and Dissonance
- The First Autonomous Theatre: Theatre = Song + Mimesis
- Plato and His World
- Aristotle's Theatre
- Conclusion of the Conclusion
- Eleven Questions, Part I
- Eleven Questions, Part II
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
