Beethoven's anvil : music in mind and culture

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Basic Books 2001Description: xvi, ,336 p. 22cm illISBN:
  • 046501544 (alk. paper) (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.11 Ben/Bec
Summary: "Beethoven's Anvil takes us inside modern and ancient performances and rituals to show how the musical linking of brains explains things we commonly (and not-so-commonly) experience. Benzon shows us a rehearsal where mysterious tones that no one is playing seem to emerge from the ceiling, but only when the musicians feel they are in a groove. Everyone present hears these tones - but are they an acoustic phenomenon.
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Includes notes chapter wise p.283-299

Includes bibliographical references and index. (p. 301-336)

"Beethoven's Anvil takes us inside modern and ancient performances and rituals to show how the musical linking of brains explains things we commonly (and not-so-commonly) experience. Benzon shows us a rehearsal where mysterious tones that no one is playing seem to emerge from the ceiling, but only when the musicians feel they are in a groove. Everyone present hears these tones - but are they an acoustic phenomenon.