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Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance
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Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance Hardcover - 1995

by David Epstein


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Epstein investigates the relationship between the ineffable art of music and the hard science of neurobiology. He integrates philosophic and scientific inquiry to formulate a theory of the fundamental yet elusive quality in music time. Derived from an analytical study of motion, tempo and emotion, Shaping Time offers a theory of the way we percieve, perform and interpret music. Epstein suggests that audience satisfaction with a musical performance results from timing trajectories established by the performer at the beginning of the piece. When the timing of a performance conflicts with audience anticipation, listeners experience physical and affective discomfort. Epstein applies his thesis to a wide range of examples for the repertoire.

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  • Title Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance
  • Author David Epstein
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 598
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wadsworth Publishing Company, New York
  • Date 1995-06
  • ISBN 9780028733203 / 0028733207
  • Weight 3.77 lbs (1.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.28 x 8.29 x 1.82 in (26.11 x 21.06 x 4.62 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Musical meter and rhythm, Tempo (Music)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94003878
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.22
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