Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262036916 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author Peter Pesic, writer, pianist, and scholar, is Director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence at St. He is the author of Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability; Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature; Sky in a Bottle; and Music and the Making of Modern Science, all published by the MIT Press. John's College, Santa Fe
Polyphony -- the interweaving of simultaneous sounds -- is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for how we understand the mind. After tracing the development of polyphony in Western music from ninth-century church music through the experimental compositions of Glenn Gould and John Cage, Pesic considers the analogous activity within the brain, the polyphonic "music of the hemispheres" that shapes brain states from sleep to awakening. Pesic's story begins with ancient conceptions of God's mind and ends with the polyphonic personhood of the human brain and body. Pesic presents the emergence of Western polyphony, its flowering, its horizons, and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains. In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of "polyphonicity" -- of "many
Peter Pesic, writer, pianist, and scholar, is Director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence at St. . He is the author of Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability; Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature; Sky in a Bottle; and Music and the Making of Modern Science, all published by the MIT Press. John's College, Santa Fe