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Title:
Music and the brain / Great Courses ; Professor Aniruddh D. Patel, Tufts University ; producer, William F. Swift ; producer/editor, Maureen Tumulty ; director, Jim M. Allen.
Author:
Patel, Aniruddh D., teacher.

Patel, Aniruddh D., author. Music and the brain, course guidebook.

Swift, William F., film producer.

Tumulty, Maureen, film producer, editor of moving image work.

Allen, Jim M. film director.

Teaching Company, production company, publisher.
Publication Information:
Chantilly, Va. : The Teaching Company, [2015]

©2015
Call Number:
ML3830 .P33 2015
Abstract:
Explores the origins of music's power and the links between hearing, moving and imagining.
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ISBN:
9781629971858

9781501910364
Series:
The great courses. Science. Neuroscience & psychology

Great courses (DVD). Neuroscience & psychology.
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (549 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide book (152 pages, illustrated, 19 cm).
General Note:
18 lectures (each approximately 30 minutes).
Added Title:
Music and the brain, course guidebook.
Contents:
Disc 1. Music : culture, biology, or both? (30 min.) -- Seeking an evolutionary theory of music (32 min.) -- Testing theories of music's origins (30 min.) -- Music, language, and emotional expression (32 min.) -- Brain sources of music's emotional power (32 min.) -- Musical building blocks : pitch and timbre (31 min.).

disc 2. Consonance, dissonance, and musical scales (31 min.) -- Arousing expectations : melody and harmony (31 min.) -- The complexities of musical rhythm (32 min.) -- Perceiving and moving to a rhythmic beat (29 min.) -- Nature, nurture, and musical brains (31 min.) -- Cognitive benefits of musical training (30 min.).

Disc 3. The development of human music cognition (29 min.) -- Disorders of music cognition (30 min.) -- Neurological effects of hearing music (30 min.) -- Neurological effects of making music (32 min.) -- Are we the only musical species? (28 min.) -- Music: a neuroscientific perspective (29 min.).
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