- 320 pages
- English
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MUSIC AND THE MIND
About this book
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.
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Index
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āAbide With Meā, 22
āabsoluteā music, 78ā9, 149, 177
abstraction and empathy, 39ā40, 112ā15, 136ā7
Achilles, 143
acoustic universals, 62
addiction to music, 93
Addison, Joseph, 89
āaestheticā mode of knowing, 39, 136ā8, 182
African music, 12, 18, 21, 62
Agamemnon, 143
Amazon, River, 12
America, see USA
Amsterdam, University of, 5
analysis of music, 77ā8
Andrea-SalomƩ, Lou, 156
aphasia, 36ā7
Apollonian culture, 156ā7, 165ā6
Archaic Age, 43
Aristotle, 41ā3, 45, 48
Aronson, Alex, 83
arousal, music as source of, 24ā31, 67ā76, 92ā107, 138, see also emotional effects of music
auditory system, function of the, 40ā41, 169
Australian aboriginals, 19ā20
autism, 33, 37, 94
Bach, C. P. E., 116
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 80, 110, 126; Art of Fugue, 180; Brandenburg Concerto, 81ā2; Mass in B Minor, 45, 50; Musical Offering, 180; Passion music, 50; St Matthew Passion, 50
Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 156 and n
Bakst, Leon Nikolaievitch, 80
BartĆ³k, BĆ©la, 5, 18, 45, 126
Barzun, Jacques, 79, 80ā81
Basel, University of, 159
Bate Collection of Historical Instruments, Oxford, 61
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre: āLāinvitation au Voyageā, 98
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 68
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 72, 115, 116, 126, 146, 172, 186; āEroicaā Symphony, 21, 158; Fifth Symphony, 29; Leonora...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Origins and Collective Functions
- II. Music, Brain and Body
- III. Basic Patterns
- IV. Songs Without Words
- V. Escapec from Reality?
- VI. The Solitary Listener
- VII. The Innermost Nature of the World
- VIII. A Justification of Existence
- IX. The Significance of Music
- About the Author
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright