On Repeat How Music Plays the Mind

Name: On Repeat How Music Plays the Mind
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ISBN: 9780199990825

ISBN-10: 0199990824

ISBN-13: 9780199990825

Edition: 2014

Authors: Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

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What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece?And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head?Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition is nearly as integral to music as the notes themselves. Its centrality has been acknowledged by everyone from evolutionary biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch, who has called it a "design feature" of music, to the composer Arnold Schoenberg who admitted that…

Book details

List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English