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Part II Music = Time Manipulated
by Richard K. Thomas
Music as a Chariot
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
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