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Music as a Chariot

by Richard K. Thomas

February 2018

Intermediate to advanced

354 pages

13h 14m

English

Routledge

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Introduction: An Ear-Opening ExperienceOld School AestheticsWhen Sound Gets Divorced from MusicWho Should Read This BookOverview of the BookTen QuestionsThings to ShareNoteBibliography
Introduction: If a Tree Falls in the Universe …The Nature of Light and SoundThe Evolution of Hearing and SeeingThe Evolution of the Brain Leads to the Ability to Express EmotionsEyes and Ears, Space and TimeTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography

Introduction: Babbling in BabelsbergThe Mammalian InvasionWe Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of …The Relativity of TimeTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography
Introduction: What’s in a Name?Music Is Organized SoundNarrowing Our Definition of MusicMusic Is Visual as Well as AudibleThe Elements of DesignEnergy CharacteristicsTemporal CharacteristicsSpatial CharacteristicsComplex Elements that Combine Energy in Time and SpaceThe Importance of These Elements of MusicA Proposed Definition of MusicTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography
Introduction: Who’s on First?Music, Language and Theatre: The Really Early YearsBipedal PrimatesTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography
Introduction: Welcome HomoOne Giant Leap for MankindEarly HomoHomo erectusRunning, Tempo, Pulse, Tactus and EntrainmentTempo, Pacing, Tactus, Entrainment and Theatre CompositionWhen Music Meets MimesisConclusionTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography
Introduction: “All Theatre Starts with a Script”Brain GainsFantastic VoyageConclusion: Song = Music + IdeaTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography
Introduction: The Roots of Who We BecomeThe Evolution of LineConsonance and DissonanceWhat Is Consonance and Dissonance?Subcortical Consonance and Dissonance PerceptionCortical Consonance and Dissonance PerceptionConsonance and Dissonance in TheatreLine/MelodyHarmonyConclusion: Consonance and Dissonance and TimeTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography
Introduction: From High Mass to EcstasyThe Development of Ritual, Shamanism, and Altered States of ConsciousnessTheatre = Song + MimesisThe Neuroscience of Arousal and Reward in the Altered States of Consciousness of Shamanism and TheatreIntroduction: Dreams, Altered States of Consciousness and TheatreThe Basic Neuroscience of ArousalThe Effect of Music on Physiological SystemsThe Effect of Music on Psychological SystemsCognitive Models for Music in TheatreRobert Thayer’s Model of Psychological MoodsBerlyne’s Theory of Arousal in Aesthetics and PsychobiologyConclusion: Experiments in EcstasyTen Questions, Part IThings to Share, Part ITen Questions Part IIThings to Share, Part IINotesBibliography
Introduction: Traveling Backward in TimeThe New Stone AgeMemoryIntroductionSensory MemoryLong Auditory Store/Short Term Memory/Working MemoryLong-Term MemoryCreating and Retrieving Long-Term MemoriesImplicit MemoryExplicit Episodic MemoryInvoluntary Explicit Episodic MemoryAutobiographical MemoryConclusion: The Origins of Theatre and the Problems of the Oral TraditionTen Questions, Part IThings to Share, Part ITen Questions, Part IIThings to Share, Part IINotesBibliography
Introduction: Theatre Becomes DramaThe Bronze AgeThe Emergence of Written LanguageThe Transition from Oral Tradition to Recorded HistoryConclusion: Lost in Translation?Ten QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliography
Introduction: A Case StudyThe Origins of Greek Music: Music = Time ManipulatedThe Development of Greek Song: Song = Music + IdeaMusic as Math Made Audible: The Greeks Revisit Consonance and DissonanceThe First Autonomous Theatre: Theatre = Song + MimesisPlato and His WorldAristotle’s TheatreConclusion of the ConclusionEleven Questions, Part IEleven Questions, Part IIThings to ShareNotesBibliography

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Dedicated to all my students

Who helped me build the class upon which this book is based.

Who challenged me when I was wrong,

And forgave me when I was right.

Who laughed with me at the endless insanity of the human condition,

And sat with me in “silent wonder” for a moment at the beauty of our predicament.

But most of all, who became the lifelong friends and colleagues I’ll cherish and admire

For the rest of my days.

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ISBN: 9781351382076